We published a ThoughtLeaders CLI for AI agents! 🛠️
The CLI vs. MCP debate:
✅ CLI: Max flexibility. Agents can pipe tools (jq, Python) & merge data client-side without blowing up context limits.
❌ MCP: Easy install, but large data payloads eat tokens fast.
Pushing CLI for now
At ThoughtLeaders, We went all-in on AI and did the thing you're Not Supposed To Do: expose our DBs (Postgres, ES, Firebolt) almost raw to clients — behind a scrubbing layer + read-only replica, driven by an open-source CLI any agent can use. Custom report backlog? Now zero. 🧊
Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:
Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.
1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.
2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.
Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.
Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.