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2 episodes
The Great Loops Debate — Dex Horthy, Geoff Huntley, Ian Livingstone, Greg Pstrucha, @insecure-agents
Jul 17, 2026 · 1:00:16
In the 'Great Loops Debate' hosted by Ali Howe, Geoff Huntley, Ian Livingstone, Dex Horthy, and Greg Pstrucha argue whether there is a delta between the hype behind loops in AI-assisted development and what works in practice. Team No Delta (Ian, Geoff) contends loops are inevitable and already cost-effective at $10.42/hour, with models surpassing average coders. Team Delta (Dex, Greg) counters that hype outruns discipline: loops work only for deterministic tasks, quality remains low, and token spend scales unsustainably. The debate covers loop history, anatomy (verification, context windows), and the feasibility of fully autonomous software factories, concluding that while loops boost productivity 2-3x, the vision of lights-off factories is premature.
MCP UI: Extending the frontier — Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon, MCP Apps
May 6, 2026 · 22:21
In this episode, Ido Salomon and Liad Yosef explain MCP Apps, an MCP extension that lets tools send interactive, branded UI instead of plain text responses inside chat hosts like ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor, and Copilot. They argue that text-based chat reduces companies to a wall of text, erasing identity, while MCP Apps preserves branding by returning HTML resources that hosts render as secure, interactive components. The architecture ensures every user click sends a message back to the host (not directly to the backend), keeping interactions in context—as demonstrated with a PostHog funnel analysis in Claude. Adoption includes Shopify, Hugging Face, GitHub, ChatGPT, and Claude, with ChatGPT recommending MCP Apps for building ChatGPT Apps. They note 800 million weekly ChatGPT users (10% of world population), calling this a once-in-20-years opportunity to rethink app distribution. Future work covers reusable views, model-UI interaction, and interoperability with generative UI protocols like A2UI and WebMCP, aiming to standardize UI in chat as the new web.
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