If you've done a task once, don't automate it. You don't understand it yet.
By the seventh time, you've seen the weird edge case, the malformed input, the dependency down, the wrong ordering assumption. Now your script encodes reality.
Automate too early and you encode fantasy.
Just shipped a Jenkins MCP server 🛠️
Claude can now:
→ Trigger Jenkins jobs
→ Stream build status
→ Pull unit test results back into the chat
No more tab-hopping between the IDE and Jenkins UI. Build/release feedback loop is finally one prompt away.
#MCP#Jenkins#DevTools
AI industry: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
In real life
exam hall, dead silent
The retrieval:
You: sweating "bro... question 10... PLEASE"
The augmentation
Mate: aggressive hand and face signals pointing at eye draws circle on desk like mad
You: "what? slower bro SLOWER"
People rage at it, worship it, try to destroy it, try to co-opt it. Bitcoin just keeps producing blocks every ten minutes. Unchanging. Unperturbed.
It's perhaps the purest expression of "don't just do something, stand there"
Bitcoin embodies that ancient Stoic principle—it cannot be swayed by external forces, cannot be flattered or insulted into changing its nature. It has no ego to bruise, no reputation to defend.