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Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-leading-alzheimers-projects-jeopardy-rcna199788

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Article URL: https://12factor.net/

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Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-spot-planetary-suicide

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Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2021.1981981#abstract

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Article URL: https://koosg.medium.com/holiday-special-from-ansi-art-to-nerd-fonts-2a66acc6e868

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I've been working with MCPs lately and want to share some hard-earned lessons about what actually makes them effective.

We built a system where LLMs could schedule meetings and book rooms through a popular enterprise platform. On paper, we had our own version of Microsoft's Task Matrix, but in practice? The failure rate was brutal.

Here's the thing: making APIs "callable" by LLMs is just the easy first step. The real challenge is making them "friendly" to how models actually think. Being callable sets the floor; being friendly determines the ceiling (physical-world APIs are incredibly difficult for models to handle correctly).

Tools like Gitmcp, and mcpify.ai promise "quick" and "easy" MCP integration of existing systems. Sounds great until you realize they offer zero guarantees about actually working well.

So how do we bridge this gap between real-world APIs and model reasoning? Some technical approaches:

1. *API Composition*: Bundle low-level APIs into semantic units that match model thinking - Example: Scheduling a meeting is one concept to a model, not a series of ID lookups and calendar operations - These are fixed workflows that don't need agent-style reasoning or complex composition

2. *Input Processing*: Simplify parameter structures - Flatten nested structures into single-level representations - Add intermediate calculations for parameters (e.g., converting date strings to timestamps) to scaffold the model's reasoning

3. *Output Processing*: Refine API responses for semantic clarity - Specify clear next steps after each API call - Provide only essential information rather than raw API responses that force the model to filter through noise

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Article URL: https://etudesinsoftware.substack.com/p/your-skills-will-always-matter

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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-cleaner-future-scientists-chemical-repurpose.html

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Article URL: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pJUXocn7aE

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Article URL: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3956262/kotlin-swift-and-ruby-losing-popularity-tiobe-index.html

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00782-0

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/14/nicky-katt-dazed-and-confused-and-school-of-rock-actor-dies-aged-54

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461

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Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/three-reasons-apple-tariffs-absolutely-wont-be-reapplied/

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Article URL: https://www.coinspect.com/blog/wallet-silent-drain/

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I've created Tap Apply - https://tapapply.net/, that will help you with your job search.

When I've been looking for jobs, it's extremely tiring applying similar job applications over and over again. Filling in my name, occupation, experience, education over and over and over again is not only tedious but also a massive waste of time that could be better spent preparing for interviews or improving skills.

Then there are also questions like "Why do you want to work in our company?" and so on. Like man you're hiring and I need a new job, that's why?

So I created Tap Apply - a simple browser extension that will reduce your job search headache in 2 ways: 1. You can forget about filling in same job forms over and over again. Just click on the autofill button and the extension will to the rest automatically.

2. Then, for cover letters or custom job application questions you can use Tap Apply's AI feature. With a click of a button it will generate a compelling answer to any question on the job form, taking into account the job description itself and your resume (Tap Apply profile).

This way, you can save hours applying to jobs or even apply to more if you wish :)

Would love to hear your feedback!

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Click login, get sent an email link that you have to first wait to be delivered (sometimes takes a full minute, sometimes you have to resend the link).

Sometimes the link goes to spam, sometimes you have to search for it like a needle in a haystack of other notifications.

Sometimes you are not logged into your email on that device, or it's a small screen that makes it a pain.

Maybe it's my mother, and she now has to go find where she wrote down her email password because she still can't figure out that 1Password thing I setup for her. Also, she does not have 1Password on this computer (maybe it's a public library).

All this pain because a developer did not want to bother with authentication.

Many, many products are like this nowadays, but the worst offenders are developer tools and OSS projects, and looks like the justification is just that, they just wanted to scratch their itch of a specific feature, why bother with auth when there is google.

Am I crazy?

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting_yard_algorithm

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