Nick Cooper

fungineering at @OpenAI

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@pamelafox I must admit I wonder why you need to @ anything to do this 😅

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@dsp_

[David Soria Parra @dsp_]

The release candidate for MCP 2026-07-28 is out. The protocol is now stateless: no handshake, no session id, any request can hit any server instance. Plus extensions as first-class (MCP Apps, Tasks), auth hardening, and a proper deprecation policy so we don't have to do this again.
https://t.co/XRLTu1BSkB

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@ajambrosino

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

I find the sometimes-overlap between the "AI slop" narrative and the "software engineering is ending" narrative entertaining.

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@clare_liguori @dsp_ I just like the hardware of macbooks. Ultimately there's a Linux cluster somewhere I'll connect to for most things anyway

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@embirico heavily heavily use a mix of both. queue is for the next thing i want it to focus on, steer is when i see it's going silly or i think of something very on-theme/change my mind

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@AmericanAir It's your JFK lounge. And I'm good

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@AmericanAir your lounge bathrooms have the worst UX I've ever experienced. Guess which unlabelled faucet does what!

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@vkhosla The art of doing science and engineering is still one of my favorite reads.

[Tanay Padhi @tanaypadhi]

how did Allbirds pivot to AI compute hardware before the shoe company literally called ASICS

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

My new way to setup an LXC container is to put codex in my core image and I just ask it to do whatever.

Today's achievement is it configured my two nics as a bonded group for hot fail over.

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@steipete Sure. What's needed?

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@pamelafox I'm very big on extensibility and meta enables a lot of that. All of MCP Apps was only possible by using meta.

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@dsp_ @Poita_ Ah, the classic HMMHRPC

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@RhysSullivan @dsp_ the tool fallback isn't too bad an idea as a default behaviour for clients? Something like if the server has them / client doesn't proactively indicate support?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

- Drafted a blog post
- Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours.
- Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing!
- Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite.
- LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true.
- lol

The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@sherwinwu Exactly the same here.

[Nick Cooper @nicknotfun]

@thsottiaux @jasonkwon I actually quite like it. It also helps me as a reviewer.

I'd actually love first class tool attribution.