New ask Hacker News story: The Abstraction Trap: Why Layers Are Lobotomizing Your Model
The Abstraction Trap: Why Layers Are Lobotomizing Your Model 2 by blas0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. The "modern" AI stack has a hidden performance problem: abstraction debt. We have spent the last two years wrapping LLMs in complex IDEs and orchestration frameworks, ostensibly for "developer experience". The research suggests this is a mistake. These wrappers truncate context to maintain low UI latency, effectively crippling the model's ability to perform deep, long-horizon reasoning & execution. --- The most performant architecture is surprisingly primitive: - raw Claude Code CLI usage - native Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations - rigorous context engineering via `CLAUDE.md` Why does this "naked" stack outperform? First, Context Integrity . Native usage allows full access to the 200k+ token window without the artificial caps imposed by chat interfaces. Second, Deterministic Orchestration . Instead of relying on autonomous agent loops th...