Sunday, 20th September 2026
- Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages.
I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin.
This plugin solves a very specific problem.
I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone.
Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally that means I need to configure an API key.
I don't like pasting API keys into agent sessions, so I wanted a way to get those keys onto a machine without pasting them into the ChatGPT app directly.
With this plugin, I can tell Codex to run:
uvx --with llm-keys-ui llm keys-ui --all
Then have it tell me the URL - including local network or Tailscale device IPs - for an interface to save additional API keys.
Then later it can use a command like llm keys get anthropic as part of a shell command when it needs to use a key.
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.
— voxium
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My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News
This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today.
Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc) with unfettered internet access - just let it call APIs directly.
If you want to operate something that's less YOLO than that, you'll find yourself wanting:
MCP makes all of that so much easier to provide.
Thinking MCP is obsolete because full coding agents don't need it misses out on all of the other things we might want to build.
# 8:24 pm / hacker-news, model-context-protocol