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Are we all early or right on time? 🤔
I know we’ve all seen @Jake Van Clief ’s post https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/each-dot-is-32-million-people?p=c222c789 I see things like this all the time leading me to believe that we are all ahead of the curve when it comes to this stuff. But then I see things like the attached photo. I see so much content about AI adoption in companies and different people talking about how they use it. I also see so much content about deals with large orgs and deals they have with anthropic or OpenAI. I often wonder what this looks like. Are people sitting down implementing the same methods as us? Or is it an army of people chatting with Claude and leaving it there. Does anyone have any inside info on how these large companies are implementing this tech? Are the adoption percentages we are told accurate? I feel like the truth is somewhere in the middle like with most things.
Are we all early or right on time? 🤔
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"Are we all early or right on time?" Yes.
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@Yucky Yuckyyyy Bruh, you are unhinged and I love it.
Stop using MCP's ... mostly
OK, maybe not all of them, but for the most part you should be able to eliminate 90% I stumbled across this old blog post from the creator of PI AI (https://pi.dev/) and it's genius. It shows you how to easily remove the common web browser MCP's and replace with code. WHY ? - Because when you run executable code you no longer need to use the complex MCP queries which are typically bloat for all use cases, it simply runs the code. 1 line. What You need, not what 1million users need. Unfortunately it was about a week late, I could have used this a week ago as I was having trouble scraping epic-games for Unreal Engine documentation. I tried a number of different scrapers, Skill-Seekers, one I built for SEO about 5 months ago... and then decided to use Firecrawl, however I had to pay for it as it's over 6000 pages. So $36 later... THE BLOG POST: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-02-what-if-you-dont-need-mcp/ having 4-6 MCP's connected really adds some overhead. I even noticed this issue with Codex, I had to uninstall Vercel (3x bigger than GitHub), and a bunch of others. So moral of the story, keep your MCP's very light, if any at all. Even the GitHub MCP is pretty much pointless unless you're doing heavy actions / worktrees. Using 5 agents on 5 different trees. etc. If you're just doing light Push.Pull.Merge.Commits. then you don't need GitHub MCP. And after reading this post you can safely get rid of Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome MCP Browser tools etc. EDIT: The scripts can be found here: UPDATED: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills (not just pi skills, can be used with Claude, Codex, Gemini, Hermes etc)
Stop using MCP's ... mostly
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@Curtis Hays not sure if this is relevant to your question.
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@Arian Kashir Curtis has an ongoing project currently involving developing an MCP for one of his use cases. So I was just tagging him in this to see if it would be helpful to his context.
🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3 WINNER ....
Before I get to the who and why, I want to say this plainly. Picking a winner this round was genuinely hard. I went through every submission. Pulled repos. Read identity files. Compared rules.md sections. Every entry did real work. A lot of you shipped something I would happily use, sell, or hand a client tomorrow. I can NOT explain to you how proud I am of everyone participating in these, you make this community worth and it and there is SO much potential for the future from just ONE competition let alone future ones. 💼 That part matters more than the prize. The $325 covers a year of Premium and that's great but... The portfolio piece is the real value here. A public repo of a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and receipts is a resume line that hiring managers can clone and test cold in five minutes. It is also something you can charge for. If you built a specialist that solves a real problem in a real domain, you already have most of what you need to license it to a peer in your industry, sell it as a service, or package it as a Done-with-You engagement. A few quick notes on that, because most of you did not realize what you actually built and I want to Highlight a few of you: 💸 @Nicolas Patron Uriburu USD Routing Coach AR could be sold to every Argentine indie consultor I know. Same playbook works for any country with FX restrictions. Subscription service, recalibrated annually, audit-pack included. It is a product. 🔗 https://github.com/Nicopatron/usd-routing-coach-ar 🔧 @Jannetje van Leeuwen RAMS specialist is a service business in waiting. Irish signage contractors will pay for this. Same model works for any trade with a regulatory documentation burden. Plumbing, electrical, fit-out, demolition. Each one needs its own folder. 🔗 https://github.com/JannetjeIQ/rams-irish-signage-installer
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@Ruben Aguirre
Think like an engineer, not a hack!
Just had a perfect reminder while building out a client workflow. Yeah, you could throw an LLM at generating a thumbnail for a PDF. Or... a little bash command: "magick bulletin-050326.pdf[0] -background white -alpha remove -alpha off bulletin-050326-tb.png" One line. One battle-tested tool. Instant result. This is the difference between hacking around with AI and actually shipping like an engineer. The Unix/Linux world is full of these quiet, rock-solid one-liners that have been refined for decades. ffmpeg, pdftk, exiftool, jq, ripgrep, parallel... the list goes on. Before you reach for the shiny new wrapper, ask yourself: what's the battle-tested command line way?(Pro tip: ask Claude or Grok to show you the classics. You'll be amazed how often the 20-year-old tool still wins.) Simple. Reliable. Fast. That's engineering. 🚀
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LLMs in their current state have democratized the world you speak of to people like me who need the benefit of those tools without having to put in the time investment of learning software development, coding languages, etc. In many ways I'm outsourcing the technical work to something that can do it much more efficiently because my time and knowledge are better spent on taking that data, applying it to my specific business context to make decisions for said business. My brain holds the business context and my job is to ask the quality questions to get the quality output that I need to help me solve those problems. With that being said it's also my responsibility to do my due diligence to check and confirm that the output is correct and sufficient. A practical example: could I take a Google business analytics or business intelligence course to learn SQL and all types of analytics? Yes. Or I could bring my business context to a conversation with an LLM and then allow it to run analytics on a spreadsheet, after which I apply my brain to make a decision. I can feed six spreadsheets to Claude, for example, and it can cross-reference, identify patterns, discover edge cases and outliers, and provide recommendations. Then I can look at it and say, "Yeah, that's right" or "No, it missed it there." The point is it can process the spreadsheets infinitely faster than I could. And therein lies the beauty and the efficiency. And this is where domain expertise is immensely important and why AI can truly 100x someone's expertise. A software developer with that domain knowledge can exponentially increase their output as a developer while maintaining the ability to audit it. Similarly, as a operations manager I can tackle immensely more tasks and make much more rapid decisions by utilizing these tools. At the end of the day proper usage of AI comes down to a human in the loop with the right context.
I NEED Your Help - Trying Something New
I'm always striving to add MAXIMUM value to the community. And I would love to hear your thoughts. I have created a new section in Davids Corner for Reviews: Tools, Models and Methods - First Up - GPT 5.5 Check it out https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/c7f102c7?md=eae78f337dcc4c749993d38b5032c15d Be sure to give me your feedback!
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This is purely a communication preference of mine but I really like a top-line summary or BLUF (Bottom line, up front). As there is so much noise out there, giving readers the ability to quickly know if this is relevant to their use case is immensely valuable. Anything that values someone's time and attention is a win in my opinion.
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Hi there! My name is Nathan and I’m here to learn new skills, reinforce current ones, and grow as a leader in business and in life.

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