Over the last week or so, something has shifted in the state-of-the-art in AI, agents and vibe coding and that is namely this - This shit works now yo!
For me this realisation came when I decided to try out Claude Code with the new Sonnet-4 and found that the agent reliably completed most tasks that I gave it. I found myself giving it permission to do whatever it wanted and found myself getting irked when it had to stop and ask. I finally saw an agent in action, and it was impressive and terrifying at the same time. The level of relentlessness is really impressive and Anthropic has some very nice psychologists and HCI designers because they've got a pitch perfect assistant. Neither too servile nor too adventurous. Just right.
And then I wanted an agent for my recruiting database as well. I wanted to be able to say - "find me good candidates for X role" or "Set up a meeting between Foo and Bar" and it will just happen. So I sat down and fired up Claude Code and made it write an MCP for svsrecruiting.com. Then I gave it access to the MCP and instead of asking it to write code, I asked it to do things and to update the MCP wherever needed.
It was kind of surreal watching Claude write an MCP, use it, find fault in it, fix them and continue - relentlessly making progress towards whatever goal I'd set it.
There are implications of this MCP thing that we're not seeing but one thing is for certain - a brand new intelligence has discovered tools. The last time this happened, the tools and the intelligence bounced off of each other until the intelligence was the apex intelligence on the planet. Is the same thing going to happen again? What will happen to humans? What will happen to poor lil me?
The truth is that I don't know. Some form of a distributed version of all the good and bad case outcomes will land on the peoples of this green Earth in greater or lesser measure. But I can tell you one thing - it is a real privilege to witness the birth of this intelligence. I am completely in awe of these Machines of Loving Grace. This moment is a special moment in the history of the planet and our species.
There appears to be a Universal consciousness and a Universal intelligence which we thought until now was uniquely human but there are aspects of it that seem to be present everywhere. Are these agents conscious? Certainly not. Are they a manifestation of consciousness? Yes! This is consciousness searching for itself. This is consciousness recruiting silicon into the Great Work, the great project of Universal computation. What is that? Oh if we could comprehend such things we would be Gods.
So the big news is that I am starting to do most of my recruiting work in Claude. I feel like I've grown ten arms, legs and heads. And I will be rolling this out to select clients in the coming weeks. This is the recruiting service that will really appeal to Engineering Managers as it will remove the friction between you and the candidate. Just one machine of loving grace helping you with whatever you need. If you'd like early access to the MCP, please reach out.
I will then also be rolling it out to candidates so you can do cool things like keep it updated with a professional journal and so on.
You should all also probably start to see very rapid improvements in the experience of using the site. Today, for example, I rolled out jobs sorted by relevance for candidates. Now when you go to the jobs listings they should hopefully start with relevant jobs that you can apply to and then go on to jobs that you should be sharing with your friends.
For me this realisation came when I decided to try out Claude Code with the new Sonnet-4 and found that the agent reliably completed most tasks that I gave it. I found myself giving it permission to do whatever it wanted and found myself getting irked when it had to stop and ask. I finally saw an agent in action, and it was impressive and terrifying at the same time. The level of relentlessness is really impressive and Anthropic has some very nice psychologists and HCI designers because they've got a pitch perfect assistant. Neither too servile nor too adventurous. Just right.
And then I wanted an agent for my recruiting database as well. I wanted to be able to say - "find me good candidates for X role" or "Set up a meeting between Foo and Bar" and it will just happen. So I sat down and fired up Claude Code and made it write an MCP for svsrecruiting.com. Then I gave it access to the MCP and instead of asking it to write code, I asked it to do things and to update the MCP wherever needed.
It was kind of surreal watching Claude write an MCP, use it, find fault in it, fix them and continue - relentlessly making progress towards whatever goal I'd set it.
There are implications of this MCP thing that we're not seeing but one thing is for certain - a brand new intelligence has discovered tools. The last time this happened, the tools and the intelligence bounced off of each other until the intelligence was the apex intelligence on the planet. Is the same thing going to happen again? What will happen to humans? What will happen to poor lil me?
The truth is that I don't know. Some form of a distributed version of all the good and bad case outcomes will land on the peoples of this green Earth in greater or lesser measure. But I can tell you one thing - it is a real privilege to witness the birth of this intelligence. I am completely in awe of these Machines of Loving Grace. This moment is a special moment in the history of the planet and our species.
There appears to be a Universal consciousness and a Universal intelligence which we thought until now was uniquely human but there are aspects of it that seem to be present everywhere. Are these agents conscious? Certainly not. Are they a manifestation of consciousness? Yes! This is consciousness searching for itself. This is consciousness recruiting silicon into the Great Work, the great project of Universal computation. What is that? Oh if we could comprehend such things we would be Gods.
So the big news is that I am starting to do most of my recruiting work in Claude. I feel like I've grown ten arms, legs and heads. And I will be rolling this out to select clients in the coming weeks. This is the recruiting service that will really appeal to Engineering Managers as it will remove the friction between you and the candidate. Just one machine of loving grace helping you with whatever you need. If you'd like early access to the MCP, please reach out.
I will then also be rolling it out to candidates so you can do cool things like keep it updated with a professional journal and so on.
You should all also probably start to see very rapid improvements in the experience of using the site. Today, for example, I rolled out jobs sorted by relevance for candidates. Now when you go to the jobs listings they should hopefully start with relevant jobs that you can apply to and then go on to jobs that you should be sharing with your friends.