Jaime Lopez

Right off the back of their acquisition announcement, @Mastercard's @raj_dhamodharan and @BVNKFinance's Julia Morrongiello sat down with @chuk_xyz and @rparekh to talk about what it means for the future of stablecoins, only at @MoneyCodePod.

@ScottBerrevoets Maybe it wasn’t to figure out your technical skills. Maybe they wanted advice?

Great example of interview questions not matching reality, the Lyft app just polls the server every 5 seconds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Obie (O.B.) the Open Banking Otter, could make a good mascot for “Agentic Open Banking”.

"Agentic Open Banking" is top of mind for me, especially after some great discussions with folks at the @FDXOrg Summit in Washington, D.C.

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After using it a bit, Claude Cowork Dispatch covers 90% of what I was trying to use OpenClaw for, but feels far less likely to upload my entire drive to a malware site.

@alina_yurenko Also followed by Step 1, the day before the conference: “I have not started my slides/demos”

step 0 of conference prep: "Ok, what did I submit" 😄

The current "MCP is dead discourse" is my current favorite example of the really annoying "simplicity" brainrot that's been plaguing tech for a while On paper "just use a cli agents already know bash" sounds really good. It makes sense and is true, but it misses the bigger picture: > how do they know about the commands + their shape? > just put it in your agents md file or make a skill > ok, so then what happens if the cli's shape changes > well then u just update the markdown file > fine let's pretend people will actually do that (they will not) and this actually works, how are you going to scope authentication and authorization? > use the cli auth tools like what AWS has > ok so we need eng's or agents to be manually making sure every project switches the auth to the correct scopes for each project so that prod can't get vibe killed and then to connect to our internal services over cli in cloud agents we need to run basic agents in sandboxes now b/c we're not using mcp and... You get the point. It sounds really simple, and it is in the toy case, but in the real world an external API gated through MCP is actually way simpler, more secure, and manageable in a lot of cases. This post & article from @GergelyOrosz is a very good example: x.com/GergelyOrosz/s… It's the same thing with the $5 VPS or htmx or postgres or whatever other "simple" enlightened solution that works great in dumb indie hacker demos while making zero sense in the real world. I hate to break it to you guys, but there's no conspiracy. If modern tech solutions really were over complex slop do u really think these companies wouldn't take the free win to just do it the "simple" way? There are tons of problems with the tech, but it exists for a reason. I like CLIs a lot, and in a lot of cases skills make sense, clis make sense, etc. There are a lot of ways to do things, and they all solve different problems. But no, MCP is not dead. It or something like it isn't going anywhere. And there are a lot of good new ideas of how to make it better! Dumping an MCP with 60+ random tools into context sucks I completely agree and needs to be fixed. A lot of the code run solutions are very compelling like @RhysSullivan 's executor, cloudflare's code mode, and others. There are ways to fix this, but a "god mode bash tool" isn't it.

Let’s go! 🇫🇷

It’s missing Spider Season

@AlexH_Johnson Cash App stock is down 40-50% from its all-time high, so I wouldn’t bet against them embedding Kalshi 🤷🤦‍♂️

This is personally annoying to me, but it's fine in the grand scheme of things. However, if the next step in this partnership is for Cash App to embed Kalshi so that its users can place bets without having to leave the app, I will flip the fuck out.

hi it's me. hope it's cool that I feature myself on my birthday 🎂🙈 ICYMI ✨Tech Babe Collective✨ is my initiative where I spotlight women & non-binary people and their contributions to the tech community 💕 #TechBabeCollective #WomenInTech #WomensHistoryMonth

Happy Monday! Our tech babe of the day is no stranger to the DevRel community, @TessaMero from @Appwrite 🩷 Anyone have a favorite thing/memory with Tessa? #TechBabeCollective #WomenInTech #WomensHistoryMonth

@thurrott It’s wild how they’ve bungled Xbox over the years

"Satya Nadella Explains Why Microsoft is 'Long on Gaming'" Does he explain why Microsoft has always fallen short on gaming?

@mikulaja You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

Apparently once you link an external bank account to @HeyBilt you **cannot** unlink it. That feels pretty UDAAP-y.

@phazlehurst @mikulaja @HeyBilt I’m thinking that as well

@mikulaja @HeyBilt Assuming this is plaid powered you should be able to remove at their console.

@KimMaida Feels like a regression to the old days of ‘go to a meetup, pay for pizza, and try to convince SF-local developers to use your product’ kind of DevRel. Strange to see old-fashioned thinking come back into fashion. It’s as if folks forgot everything we learned the past few years.

@DevWithTheHair I think part of it is the location requirements, many require SF for AI hotbed. I think it will level out again once people realize that AI is actually everywhere, not just the valley. That’s always how it goes eventually 🥲

The DevRel job market is still in such a wild state. I see tons of roles open, many for leadership positions like Director of DevRel, and at the same time, very similar companies are laying off entire high-performing DevRel teams. It’s such an unpredictable market.

@mikulaja The article missed the obvious choice of “Bilt to last?”

Bilt users are PISSED. Delayed or bounced rent payments. Customer service from unhelpful AI bots with human agents seemingly missing in action. Any info on what’s happening? My DMs are open.

@sytaylor Unfortunate typo in the graphic where I think you meant “card”. But would be pretty sweet if my agent could use my car to go to the local mall to make purchases.