On Thursday I was interviewed by Demetrios Brinkmann as part of the @aaif.io livestream where I got to talk about the more interesting aspects of writing a book about a rapidly changing technology, the serendipitous timing of all my blown deadlines, what the book is about, and more

Live from AGNTCon + MCPCon NA Day 2, Anthropic, DeepMind, AWS, Entire, O’Reilly & More

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Caught an earlier flight home, time to mainline college gameday for the entire first leg of my trip

Apropos of nothing, if you're considering switching from a recently deprecated browser and want to try Firefox, I just landed `Copy Tab URL` in nightly - it's not bound by default but a quick visit to `about:keyboard` will let you set it, and also take a glance at the other neat shortcuts we have.

This ty + uv integration for PEP 723 might definitively make Python my go-to language for scripts. No more bash at any size. astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-i...

Bringing uv and ty together

Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.

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Basically my mantra at MCPCon this week. Very hard to get out of my comfort zone and talk to people, hand out bookmarks, go on camera for a livestream, and get as much stuffed animal swag for my kid as I could. Also I wish I read this on Tuesday to have as a mantra in my head.

Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢@ens0.me · 4d ago

Being high agency is never enough to guarantee you will get what you want. But it will put you at a substantial advantage compared to most. Be persistent, put yourself out there even when it's hard, shoot your shots, take as much control over your destiny that you can.

Big ole WHOA moment. A whoament if you will (this is @timoreilly.bsky.social, founder of @oreilly.bsky.social and OSS OG)

Going to attempt to do more chill coverage right now of the AGNTCon + MCPCon morning keynotes because I’m sleepy, but because it’s dark in here these threads are also my notes for myself (I’m back to doing hand-written notes because LLMs can read my handwriting better than I can)

This was the topic of one of the keynotes at MCPCon yesterday if you want to know how much formal verification has spread through the community.

John David Pressman@jdp.extropian.net · 5d ago

It begins. www.anthropic.com/research/for...

Day 1 of AGNTCon + MCPCon in the books. I'm exhausted, but had a blast. From the rapidfire book signing to hanging out with the MCPJam team, great talks (highlight was @aparker.io's) and keynotes, and meeting a ton of people building cool things. Never felt more pumped about the MCP community.

I’ve been most excited by skills over MCP and MCP events lately, but WebMCP is starting to really pull on my attention.

Arc was the best browser in a long time, and their move to another browser that was unintelligbly more agentic in a way people didn’t gravitate towards was a huge miss. I moved back to Firefox, personally.

Brookie@brookie.blog · 6d ago

probably the dumbest thing a company has done lol

thank you emudhra. "My only micro-B cable is bent" -> using leaked certificates to spoof the sony app store to get root on my camera

In just a few minutes, every copy of AI Agents with MCP was signed and spoken for. Thank you to everyone who came out, now time to figure out which of the talks I overbooked myself on I can actually go see.

Signing AI Agents with MCP at the @oreilly.bsky.social booth in the Solutions Showcase right after the keynotes, 10:10-10:35. 20-25 copies, first come first served. Come find me! #AGNTCon #MCPCon

AGNTCon + MCPCon Thread (@aaif.io) This is the largest meeting yet! And these have been going on all over the world for quite a bit now! (Boston soon?! 🥺👉👈)

I was on the Chat About AI podcast to talk all things MCP, and as a bonus you get to see my rad poster of the grim reaper riding an alligator

Kyle Stratis on MCP's Big Shift

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On my way to San Jose right now for @aaif.io AGNTCon + MCPCon. Signing AI Agents with MCP at the @oreilly.bsky.social booth Thursday during the AM coffee break (10:10-10:35 PT). Only 20-25 copies, so come early, or bring your own and I'll sign it.

The print edition of AI Agents with MCP is out today! 330+ pages on building MCP clients, servers, and agents, up to date with the July spec rewrite and Python SDK v2. Thanks to everyone at @oreilly.bsky.social who got it here.

Whoa!

This is very order dependency problem-shaped, something LLMs have struggled with for a while (I'm not sure if this has been RL'ed to hell for MCQs since 2024-2025). Not the exact problem, but close enough to activate my overactive pattern-matching. openreview.net/pdf?id=shr9P...

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w ago

wow, i had my doubts, but this is true in every single LLM i can find

On Dec 4 I'm joining Vicki Reyzelman on @oreilly.bsky.social's Beyond the Book to talk AI Agents with MCP: the core architecture, building servers and clients in Python, and agent designs that hold up as models change. Live Q&A, 10am ET / 7am PT.

BOOK OF THE WEEK! BOOK OF THE WEEK! CHECK OUT THE BOOK OF THE WEEK! (it's mine)

Rami Krispin@ramikrispin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My weekly newsletter is out! 🔹 Open Source - Google Research's new project: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement 🔹 New learning resources - MLA, Fledge Alpha, Jev decision models 🔹 Book of the week - AI Agents with MCP by @kylestratis.com ramikrispin.substack.com/p/self-impro... #ai #datascience

Heading to San Jose next week for the @aaif.io AGNTCon + MCPCon. I'm signing AI Agents with MCP at the @oreilly.bsky.social booth during Thursday's AM coffee break (10:10-10:35). I'll have 20-25 copies on hand, and I'll sign any you bring too. Come say hi!

My physical copy of AI Agents with MCP showed up...it's real! You can order the ebook now, and the print edition should be shipping soon, with pre-orders open. Over 330 pages on the Model Context Protocol, up to date with the July spec rewrite and Python SDK v2. kylestratis.com/books/ai-ag...

I see a commonly repeated sentiment on Bluesky, the website for 38 year olds, that says everyone was excited by the advent of the Internet in a way that far exceeds any excitement for gen AI/LLMs. The thing is, that's not strictly true.

My physical copy of AI Agents with MCP showed up...it's real! You can order the ebook now, and the print edition should be shipping soon, with pre-orders open. Over 330 pages on the Model Context Protocol, up to date with the July spec rewrite and Python SDK v2. kylestratis.com/books/ai-ag...

Picasso would not have bothered to start a painting if he knew the outcome. That line stuck with me while sitting near a beach in Italy, writing without knowing where it leads. www.ssp.sh/blog/on-cre...

The Act and the Outcome of Creation

A reflection on why we create: for joy, for flow, for others, and for the self. On creation as a gift with no strings attached and success beyond outcomes.

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This wraps up a few problems: publish or perish for those who want to stay in academia and papers being an antiquated medium of knowledge communication. These issues predate LLMs, but they're accelerating it for sure.

Claas Voelcker@cvoelcker.bsky.social · last mo.

Reducing the current flood of papers requires us to take a loooong and hard look at the incentive structure beneath it all. Limits etc feel good, but will probably barely move the needle based on authorship stats. The problem is a simple RoI calculation. AI papers are tickets to two of the most ...

I can tell you right now the correct answers are: Meet Pointe Drive By Pies Athan's (although I really need to try Arwa it looks so good)

@brooklinenews.bsky.social · last mo.

We asked readers for their favorite coffee in Brookline, and tallied the results. Here's what you said: brookline.news/whats-the-be...

Weird request; we've had a fairly big breakthrough that we've been mostly keeping a lid on for the past year. We're looking to talk to some science / AI writers about this and I know a lot of y'all are out here on bsky...