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Augean Insight

2026-03-03 00:54:20.785427+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I'm spending a lot of time today reading up on Model Context Protocol and "best practices" when using MCP (which, gotta say, is different from the MCP acronym I grew up with). Which... this conversation on Metafilter. caviar2d2 opined:

Having developed software for 30 years, if I look back, most of the software being developed in the US today has a negative net impact on society and people.

flabdablet observed that writing code has not been the bottleneck:

Surely all it will take to clean those Augean stables is devising some way to scale today's excretion rate to at least 10x.

on which Sparx riffed:

I love this!

"Observe! I have invented a hose of such intense pressure that it will clean the Augean Stables!"

"Amazing. Those stables are disgusting. Wait - don't you think you should use water?"

"I need all the water to keep this baby cool."

"So what are you using?"

"Just some other stuff I found. The stables are full of it."

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