Reposted by ivorscottRuss Cox @swtch.com · 28/04/2026“There’s a tidal wave coming. You can see it. We can all see it. Are you going to lay down and die, or are you going to do something about it?” Be ready to patch your systems, repeatedly, for at least the next 12 months. 45216
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 15/04/2026ivorscott.com/articles/not...ivorscott.comNote-taking Meditations - Part 1 | Ivor ScottThe first in a series of personal writings on note-taking. AI-assisted note-taking: summarizing books, file structure, analogies and diagrams. 000
Reposted by ivorscottJason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 04/04/2026it seems more important than ever to give real thought to the difference between “busy” and “productive”. it doesn’t matter how fast the buttons get pushed if nothing of value comes out of that flurry of activity I’ve written about this a lot over the years jason.energy/context-swit...jason.energyPlease stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences. 2506
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 04/04/2026“Own your craft. Use the tools. Don’t let the tools use you.”open.substack.comI Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 01/04/2026What do educators offer that AI can't? ivorscott.com/articles/dra...ivorscott.comDraw the Route | Ivor ScottAI can generate a curriculum in seconds. Deciding which parts matter, in what order, and when a learner is drifting, that job still belongs to the educator. 000
Reposted by ivorscottGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 31/03/2026Ironic how Anthropic sells Claude Code security reviews positioned as something v powerful (costing $15-25 per PR review), and being clear they use it on all PRs... then leaking all of Claude Code's code thanks to publishing their sourcemap. AI won't save you from yourself! 116413
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 12/03/20261. Collect ideas. What is there to know? 2. Prioritise. What should you know? 3. Sort. In what order? 4. Associate. Associate your progress with happiness. (Feel terrible if you’re off track and celebrate if you’re on track —consequence and reward). 5. Teach. How can you explain it? 000
Reposted by ivorscottJulia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...wired.comGrammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ FeatureThe feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. 11779592390
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/03/2026github.com/karpathy/aut...github.comGitHub - karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automaticallyAI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically - karpathy/autoresearch 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/03/2026Attempt ambitious goals without doubting yourself. Even if you make it halfway, that’s success. Even if you fail at the beginning, that’s convenient. Learn from your mistakes and choose the right goals for the present and future you. 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 06/03/2026Agent skills modeling explicit coding conventions improve clarity and limit surprises.youtu.beAI Cognitive Debt: The Crisis Nobody Sees ComingYouTube video by Imran Gardezi 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 03/03/2026The companies that deprioritise the soft skills will suffer. As always. 000
Reposted by ivorscottKent Beck @kentbeck.com · 03/03/2026I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect. 812641
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 03/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/brainhea...open.substack.comHow to Trick Your Brain into Doing Difficult ThingsA Neuroscientist’s 7 Proven Ways to Get Yourself to Do What Matters 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 02/03/2026Not surprisingly tbh. They keep changing things. There’s a new feature every few days. That’s why there’s 5k+ issues on GitHub. 👌 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 21/02/2026ivorscott.com/articles/fro...ivorscott.comFrom Writing Lines to Writing Intent | Ivor ScottCoding hasn't disappeared. It has moved upstream from syntax to specification. In an agentic workflow, the developer's value lies in defining intent precisely, not in typing code faster. 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 25/06/2025No. Looks clean, thanks for sharing. I find it interesting how some people embrace the word “vibe coding” while others consider it a curse word—the latter often distinguishing themselves from vibe coding by redefining it as shipping generated code to production. 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 24/06/2025I’m also considering notion’s MCP server for ingesting technical proposal documents. Each document defines a software project—its name, problem, scope, dependencies, components, endpoints etc. My intention is to connect VScode to this context for an agentic coding workflow. 010
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 24/06/2025@bretfisher.com some additional notes about my workshop experience. 110
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 24/06/2025In a workshop last week, I built a cli for desktop automation—it controlled the mouse & keyboard. Next, I made an MCP sever based on its functionality, exposing the important functions as MCP cmds. Then, I connected to the MCP sever and an LLM in a middleman script to automate a specific task. 110
Reposted by ivorscottKonrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 20/06/2025New blog post: "Why computational reproducibility matters" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/0... 🧪blog.khinsen.netKonrad Hinsen's blog 1225
Reposted by ivorscottBrian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.forkingpaths.coThe Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of CognitionOne professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves. 70895354
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 19/06/2025Useful listing of mcp servers. mcp.somcp.soMCP ServersThe largest collection of MCP Servers, including Awesome MCP Servers and Claude MCP integration. Search and discover MCP servers to enhance your AI capabilities. 100
Reposted by ivorscottLuciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025The paper provides a formal framework for what AI practitioners have long suspected. "A Conjecture on a Fundamental Trade-Off between Certainty and Scope in Symbolic and Generative AI" Version 2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3... 3/3 152
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/2025Miguel has a point but I'm optimistic. Painting didn't die when the camera was invented––it evolved. Photorealism emerged, abstraction flourished and new styles were born in response. This tech is in it's trail phase, in the future, we will develop new techniques inspired by these challenges. 000
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/2025TL;DR: Does it really make you faster if you need to maintain code you don't understand? You can’t have both speed and clarity without effort. blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-gen...blog.miguelgrinberg.comWhy Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For MePeople keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat… 100
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/20255. Langchaingo is a great library for orchestrating an Agent's business logic, which may involve getting context from an MCP server, or chaining LLMs if desired. Langchaingo doesn't work with MCP by default––so you'll need an adapter. github.com/dmahlow/lang...github.comGitHub - dmahlow/langchaingo-mcp-adapter: A Go adapter that bridges LangChain Go tools with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.A Go adapter that bridges LangChain Go tools with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. - dmahlow/langchaingo-mcp-adapter 100
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/20254. An Agent is basically an LLM in a loop that has access to internal/external tools. It continues the loop until the task is complete. 100
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/20253. MCP is like an agent's menu of available tools and context. It's just a unified API that exposes capabilities, such as access to files, databases or services. Setting up MCP servers in go is simple with mcp-go. github.com/mark3labs/mc...github.comGitHub - mark3labs/mcp-go: A Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools.A Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. - mark3labs/mcp-go 200
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/20252. Cline is a nice plugin for agentic coding in VSCode. Honestly, I would prefer sticking with my JetBrains Goland IDE. JetBrains has the Junie coding agent––I hope it's worth the cost. cline.botcline.botCline - AI Autonomous Coding Agent for VS CodeCline is an open-source AI coding assistant with dual Plan/Act modes, terminal execution, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for VS Code. Alternative to GitHub Copilot with extensible tools and real-tim... 100
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/20251. Claude Sonnet 4 is expensive for a reason––it's coding quality exceeds Open AI GPT 4.1. Even when prompted to stay minimal the responses were noticeably more elaborate. I only spent $2.50 using GPT 4.1 for the 7 hour workshop while the person next to me racked up $9 using Sonnet 4. 100
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/2025My takeaways from the Building Agents with MCP in Go workshop. 100
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 16/06/2025dagger.io/blog/agent-c...dagger.ioContaining agent chaos: Run coding agents in parallel without destroying everything | DaggerEnable coding agents to work in parallel, safely and independently with your preferred stack. Powered by Dagger. 000
Reposted by ivorscottGopherCon Europe @gopherconeu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Good morning from our workshops! AI Agents and MCP Tools in #golang by Daniel Mahlow #gopherconEU 021
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 16/06/20256 Agentic Coding Tips 1. Guide don't dictate 2. Review everything 3. Test incrementally 4. Patten consistently 5. Simple is better 6. Every AI output should be filtered through human 000
Reposted by ivorscottGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 11/06/2025@kentbeck.com is a legend in software engineering: and after coding for 52 years, he's never had more fun than now, he told me. Why? AI agents brought back the joy of creating software without the stuff that he's started to hate about coding. Watch/listen: • YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd) 58711
Reposted by ivorscottFrédéric G. MARAND @fgmarand.bsky.social · 19/03/2025So you would like to write more reliable software ? I just published a presentation about how to model software with TLA+, meant for software engineers, not mathematicians/logicians. speakerdeck.com/fgm/a-tla-pl... #tlaplusspeakerdeck.comA TLA+ intro for Software engineersThis presentation introduces TLA+, a formal specification language for concurrent systems. Unlike most existing reference sources, it is meant for u… 031
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/06/2025So I've been avoiding a deep dive into MCP–only recently receiving a brief introduction from watching @bretfisher.com live shows. Is it fate that the Go workshop I purchased for next week was replaced last minute? Guess what the topic is.media.tenor.coma man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying it is inevitableALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying it is inevitable 110
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 05/06/2025I wasn’t aware of the subtle differences between AI and ML Engineering. Interesting read.open.substack.comThe AI Engineering StackThree layers of the AI stack, how AI engineering is different from ML engineering and fullstack engineering, and more. An excerpt from the book AI Engineering by Chip Huyen 010
Reposted by ivorscottjub0bs @jub0bs.com · 29/05/2025New blog post! 🤓 jub0bs.com/posts/2025-0... #golang #iteratorjub0bs.comPure vs. impure iterators in GoTL;DR ¶ Go has now standardised iterators. Iterators are powerful. Being functions under the hood, iterators can be closures. The classification of iterators suggested by the documentation is ambiguou... 1248
ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 01/06/2025invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-git...invariantlabs.aiGitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCPWe showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security ... 000
