Sorry you’re stuck working on a Monday while your Piero enjoys a long, well-deserved vacation - one that should last roughly fifteen years. In the meantime, I want to dial back the polemics for a while. The whole argue-with-everyone experiment taught me a lot, and now I’d like to go back to some hardcore technical content. Which brings me to a decision I need your help with.
Back to the technical stuff: MCP or skills?
I’m torn between two topics.
The first is MCP (Model Context Protocol). I pitched it a while back, but the younger crowd doesn’t love it - they keep telling me MCP is too corporate. They want the community-driven stuff: skills, agent skills, that whole side.
So the second option is skills, which honestly are dead simple in the end. I’d love to walk through how a skill works at a low level. That’s the kind of thing that works well on YouTube - maybe a few live streams, maybe with a guest or two.
Speaking of guests: Giuseppe Funicello published a great video today, and I recommend following him. He’s one of the genuinely sharp, up-to-date people in the Italian tech scene. Today he was talking about the role of frameworks - Next.js, all the JavaScript/TypeScript churn - but at the end he raised a point I care about a lot: what is the role of a framework in the age of AI? And what we used to call developer experience should probably become agent experience. I’d love to do a live stream with him if he’s up for it.
Why “agent experience” is on my mind
This ties directly into something I keep chewing on. With Cheshire Cat 2 shipping in two weeks - and yes, I’ve been saying “two weeks” for over six months now - the thing is basically 90% done. But I keep mentally torturing myself about how much a tool like this is even needed anymore.
Here’s the tension. Once you have an agent loop, people can ask it to do basically anything:
- Sandboxes
- The file system
- Using resources
- Using the graph
- Using the vector DB
It’s become so elastic, and the standards have settled down quite a bit, that I’m honestly not sure where all this is heading. I don’t have a neat conclusion - I just wanted to share where my head is at.
The real ask: more women in tech
Before I head back to the beach, there’s something else I want to push on: I’d like more involvement from women on the channel, and in AI and technology more broadly.
This is a long story for me. I’ve been active as an organizer of tech events specifically to increase female participation - both as speakers and as attendees - and it is genuinely hard. I monitor the gender split in my own web traffic, and the numbers are lopsided: something like 98% of the community I reach is male.
What gets me is that I make a point of talking about technology in a way that’s completely detached from any gender dynamic. I’ve only ever talked about tech. And yet the audience skews the way it does. So clearly we have to invent something that actually brings women in - and if you have suggestions, I want to hear them.
Three things I’m asking you
So, three questions before I disappear again:
- Are you actually enjoying working while I’m on vacation?
- MCP or skills? Pick one - don’t tell me “both,” don’t be wishy-washy about it.
- How do we bring more women into computer science and AI?
Love you all. Let me know.