We put a coding agent in a while loop

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.

When Claude starts deploying Kafka clusters I’m outro

It's already happening brother, https://github.com/containers/kubernetes-mcp-server.

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

> on its own

does it? Did you forget the prompts? MCP is just a protocol for tool/function calling which in turn is part of the prompt, quite an important part actually.

Did you think AI works by prompts like "make magic happen" and it... just happens? Anyone who makes dumb arguments like this should not deserve a job in tech.

I’ve literally asked Claude Code to look at and fix an issue on a cluster and it knows to use the cli utils.

Because Claude has that as a built-in tool. Try Claude on web and see how useless AI is without tools.

And don't even get me start with giving AI your entire system in one tool, it's good for toying around only.

Why would I use Claude on web to do that? Why would I use the wrong tool for the job?