by assimpleaspossi
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- >The wizard opens your browser to sign in, scans your machine for installed agents, and writes the config to each one. It supports over 30 agents. The user never sees a config file.
In this day and age, I find it interesting that no one is screaming about security and privacy concerns about this which is so prevalent on any social media platform including this one.
- “ And I realized my setup instructions weren’t documentation. They were a wall between my product and the people who wanted to use it.”
Assuming this was written by a human, I think it is time to retire saying “this is not x it is y”.
The moment I see that I think the text is AI generated and I lose interest.
- On a recent project we joked "developers can't read". Occasionally we'd ask for help and be pointed to the docs "I can't read".
I suspect there's two big parts to this:
1. Users expect batteries included and that everything "just works" the first time.
2. The language you used differs match your audience. E.g they search "gray" and find no results, however you've spelt it "grey"
- I'm going to ask a lazy question, don't you need a good setup document in order to write the installer that executes setup?
by flexagoon
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- If a "developer" can't manage to read one paragraph in a readme, maybe the "developer tool" is not for them. As much as I usually hate gatekeeping, basic reading comprehension is a skill I'd happily gatekeep at.
by Brajeshwar
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- Isn’t that the first one reads, when one wants to Setup? What changed?
by Eisenstein
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- So, how do your users uninstall it when they don't want it any more?
by finthehuman
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- Claude reads them.
by NamlchakKhandro
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- Why do people keep creating MCP servers.
All you need is bash
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- lol too true, learned this the hard way
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