[nl]

Have you ever worked with a non-programmer and helped them setup their AI workflows?

You install MCP connectors, specific skills, work around model/harness quirks, set security boundaries etc.

It's a lot of work, and most people will never want to change it once they have it working.

[favouritemartin]

Skills are quite interoperable, and you can easily ask Codex / Claude to help you with switching the MCP connectors or any other things specific to your previous workflow. It's been quite low friction in my experience.

[nl]

I know someone who runs AI training.

They will have people who don't understand the distinction between visiting Claude.ai and downloading Claude Cowork.

They type the words "setup MCP" into Claude.ai and expect it to automate Excel on their machine.

There's a pretty big gap between the things we talk about here, and where the world is at.

[andrewf]

It strikes me as like setting up an IDE. People have preferences, switching is possible, but there are advantages to saying "we are a Visual Studio + Resharper shop" or "everyone uses IntelliJ to work on this project".

[trollbridge]

Yes. I taught the non-programmer to ask the harness to set up things like MCP connectors.

[cyanydeez]

we have AI. WHAT is it good for if a harness cant just take a api endpoint and some permissions and duplicate.

its so distracting seeing these types of confision.

every plugin is already just multimodaling their targets.