Extra-steps.dev – AI hype mapped to CS primitives

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I built a reference site that maps AI marketing buzzwords to the CS primitives underneath them. Every entry follows the same format: "X is just Y with extra steps."MCP? JSON-RPC over stdio. Agents? A while loop with an LLM call. RAG? A search index + string concatenation. Prompt engineering? natural language + markdownThe site has an origins section for buzzwords that already graduated — Docker (cgroups + namespaces), Kubernetes (reconciliation loops watching YAML), Serverless (someone else's process on someone else's computer). And of course, BrandonM's 2007 comment on the Dropbox YC demo.Each entry has expandable pseudocode on the index page, detailed breakdowns with citations on the detai

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