Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by oblio on Saturday August 09, 2025 @04:10PM
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We keep repeating this.
When desktop OSes came out, hardware resources were scarce so all the desktop OSes (DOS, Windows, MacOS) forgot all the lessons from Unix: multi user, cooperative multitasking, etc. 10 years later PC hardware was faster than workstations from the 90s yet we're still stuck with OSes riddled with limitations that stopped making sense in the 80s.
When smartphones came out there was this gold rush and hardware resources were scarce so OSes (iOS, Android) again forgot all the lessons. 10 years later mobile hardware was faster than desktop hardware from the 00s. We're still stuck with mistakes from the 00s.
AI basically does the same thing. It's all lead by very bright 20 and 30 year olds that weren't even born when Windows was first released.
It's all gold rushes and nobody does Dutch urban infrastructure design over decades. Which makes sense as this is all driven by the US, where long term plan I is anathema.
When desktop OSes came out, hardware resources were scarce so all the desktop OSes (DOS, Windows, MacOS) forgot all the lessons from Unix: multi user, cooperative multitasking, etc. 10 years later PC hardware was faster than workstations from the 90s yet we're still stuck with OSes riddled with limitations that stopped making sense in the 80s.
When smartphones came out there was this gold rush and hardware resources were scarce so OSes (iOS, Android) again forgot all the lessons. 10 years later mobile hardware was faster than desktop hardware from the 00s. We're still stuck with mistakes from the 00s.
AI basically does the same thing. It's all lead by very bright 20 and 30 year olds that weren't even born when Windows was first released.
Our field is doomed under a Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html (copy paste the link).
It's all gold rushes and nobody does Dutch urban infrastructure design over decades. Which makes sense as this is all driven by the US, where long term plan I is anathema.