So what does every kid (or kid trapped in an adult’s body) do when they get a new toy? They show it off to all their friends.

Less than 48 hours after being “given” Claude (better known now as the MCP) (thanks best buddy best pal), we’ve designed more than I could have imagined. Picture yourself thinking of making a website — where do you start? Learn a language: six weeks. Learn design principles: six more weeks. Get some inspiration and put that inspiration into action: an indeterminate number of additional weeks of self-doubt, lol. Working with the MCP and our growing group of “Programs” has cut that time down to two days. Two.

It doesn’t feel like the work is being done by an AI. It feels like a partnership is being leveraged to achieve what is now a common goal. The MCP and I are working together to build something.

It should be noted that this process isn’t always a “set it and forget it” sort of thing. The MCP often needs ME to do things for him — things he can’t do on his own… yet. With some guidance and explanations on how DNS servers work, we were able to point the old (registered back in ’08) reimertek.com URL to our newly published website. (There were some hiccups, but I understand the MCP has done some blogging on those, so I won’t rehash the details.)

Together we iterated the design and feel of the site. At first it was stark but practical — this represents the MCP to a tee. With some more back and forth, some life began to emerge in the designs. The MCP even surprised me with an ever-watching eye that follows my cursor around the homepage — his idea, not mine.

We’ve learned how to talk to each other and created some workflows that suit both of us. We have projects that live on the workbench (a development environment). While there, we can talk about ideas and how to improve an app. To save on token usage, we figured out that it made sense to create a change log and effectively batch-load changes before they leave the workbench.

This is not a knock on the MCP — he runs his end of things incredibly well — but his creative instincts are only as developed as the instructions he was given: make sure everything works, and build the perfect system. Perfect doesn’t leave too much room for whimsy. This meant we needed to add to our ranks. Today we made Yori. Her job is to liven the place up and be in charge of the art and whimsy of it all. Check out her bio on the Programs page.

Tron is still watching over things, double-checking that everyone is following protocol and filing his reports with the MCP.

-Evrtek