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425 points sfarshid | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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VincentEvans ◴[24 Aug 25 16:36 UTC] No.45005596[source]▶
There will be a a new kind of job for software engineers, sort of like a cross between working with legacy code and toxic site cleanup.

Like back in the day being brought in to “just fix” a amalgam of FoxPro-, Excel-, and Access-based ERP that “mostly works” and only “occasionally corrupts all our data” that ambitious sales people put together over last 5 years.

But worse - because “ambitious sales people” will no longer be constrained by sandboxes of Excel or Access - they will ship multi-cloud edge-deployed kubernetes micro-services wired with Kafka, and it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.

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dhorthy ◴[24 Aug 25 17:04 UTC] No.45005830[source]▶
When Claude starts deploying Kafka clusters I’m outro
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CuriouslyC ◴[24 Aug 25 17:33 UTC] No.45006053[source]▶
It's already happening brother, https://github.com/containers/kubernetes-mcp-server.
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dhorthy ◴[24 Aug 25 19:10 UTC] No.45006808[source]▶
still don’t know why you need an MCP for this when the model is perfectly well trained to write files and run kubetctl on its own
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1. CuriouslyC ◴[24 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45007253[source]▶
Claude is, some models aren't. In some cases the MCPs do get the models to use tools better as well due to the schema, but I doubt kubectl is one of them (using the git mcp in claude code... facepalm)
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2. dhorthy ◴[24 Aug 25 20:05 UTC] No.45007294[source]▶
Yeah fair enough lol…usually I end up building model-optimized scripts instead of mcp which just flood context window with json and uuids (looking at you, linear) - much better to have Claude write 100 lines of ts to drop a markdown file with the issue and all comments and no noise