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MCP Apps

Beyond Text

How MCP Apps are Revolutionizing Agentic UIs

In the rapidly evolving field of AI and LLM-powered agents, the paradigm has traditionally been text-in, text-out. Models operate by generating text—summarizing, explaining, or providing structured data. While powerful, this text-only interaction often falls short when a human user requires not just information, but an interactive experience—a dashboard to filter, a form to complete, or a rich media viewer to manipulate.

I believe the future of intelligent agents must be multimodal and highly interactive. That is why I am excited to dive into the MCP Apps (Model Context Protocol Applications) extension, a ground-breaking standard that brings rich, interactive UIs directly into the conversation thread.

Jellyfin 12.0

The self-hosted media ecosystem is constantly evolving, and the latest update, Jellyfin Version 12.0, is a significant releases in the recent history of the Web client and core functionality. 12.0 represents an overhaul, focusing on polishing the user experience, library performance, and advanced features for media organization.

The Meta-Agent

AI development is not only about maximizing generative output; it is also about maximizing reliability, controllability and costs. Frontier models have excellent reasoning abilities and a huge knowledge. They are brilliant minds which can handle most problems autonomously.

But there's a price to pay (literally in 💲), as well as privacy risks and infrastructure dependency.

The S.H.O.D.A.N. project is for my personal education - but also to mitigate those risks without loosing quality. Mainly driven by my personal token consumption - which is way higher than I'm willing to pay for 😉.

Model Hardware Standard (MHS)

How MHS works [Anthropic] Anthropic has unveiled the Model Hardware…

Horizon II

Pragmata

Pragmata was a lot of fun - and I'll continue to play it with the new modes available now. As I enjoyed the strong narrative, Horizon was recommended to me ...

Guerrilla Games began developing Forbidden West in 2018. The development peaked at over 300 full-time employees and cost around US$212 million, making the game one of the most expensive ever to develop.

Dunning-Kruger effect

... For decades, the Dunning-Kruger effect has been understood to mean that people with low ability, those who know the least, are the most overconfident, while high performers are more realistic. Hundreds of studies have replicated the classic finding, illustrating that people who do well on multiple-choice tests overpredict their performance by less than those who do badly.

The mythical man

In conjunction with the adoption of generative AI and AI assisted development I had a very interesting discussion with a co-worker in my company. He is specialized to analyze bussines processes and to do management coaching. We discussed the role of AI in our SDLC, and what could/should be improve that is known in theory since quite a while.

He pointed me to a book written by Frederick P. Brooks: The mythical man-month

Sandbox #2 (cont.)

I could ask my local LLM to write a script, troubleshoot a Docker container, or explain how to organize a folder full of files, and it would usually give me a sensible answer. That answer was also where its job ended. My local LLM could not handle an entire task on its own.

[Anurag Singh]