[vova_hn2]

> having skills for how to write a (slack, discord, etc) integration, instead of shipping an implementation for each

I'm not sure what is the advantage. Each user will have to waste time and tokens for the same task, instead of doing it once and and shipping to everyone.

[theptip]

Here is my take -

Old world - each platform writes APIs and then has to publish rich client libraries. Despite the server APIs theoretically being well documented, because users want the quickest time-to-first-demo platforms also ship a bunch of client code. This may bring in dependencies you don’t care for, or otherwise have a wide attack surface.

New world - platforms publish good REST APIs and specs, and Claude can trivially implement the client that is idiomatic for your own app deployment. Within Nanoclaw you don’t even need to handle eg streaming APIs if you only need a simple poll on one endpoint, even though the server (and official client library) might support them. In the best case, this can keep your app more secure.

Of course, the tradeoff/risk is that an individual implementation might be broken. So right now I’m not convinced it’s a win. But I generally buy that it’ll be possible to maintain a high enough security bar within the next year or two.

The time and token cost is probably seconds and cents already, I don’t buy that one.

[verdverm]

Agreement, excellence in one domain does not confer it to others. If you've ever worked with researchers, you know for the most part they are not engineers. This is bad advice / prediction by people with hammers imo.

OCI is a good choice of reuse, they aren't having the agent reimplement that. When there is an existing SDK, no sense in rebuilding that either. Code you don't use should be compiled away anyhow.

[altruios]

Except it's not 'once' though.

In order for it to be 'once': all hardware must have been, currently be, and always will be: interchangeable. As well as all OS's. That's simply not feasible.

[vova_hn2]

I don't see, how is it relevant in this case. We are talking about writing an integration with an HTTP API (probably) in a high level language (TS/JS, Python, etc). We have already abstracted hardware away.