An Automattic Experiment
This month, we’re running an experiment at Automattic called Radical Speed Month.
For a month, small (usually two-person) teams have been given the go-ahead to build and ship…whatever they want! No approvals required1. If you have an idea for something cool, an experience you’ve always wanted to fix, whatever, this month you can do it.
The idea is to see what happens when we break out of our normal routines and structures and start working with each other in different ways.
A couple of months ago, I wrote a very basic MCP server for Simplenote. That generated some excited at Automattic and I was asked to post about it on the Simplenote blog.
For Radical Speed month, I and my colleague Evan Tobiesen are expanding on this initial MCP server. This includes things like Windows & Linux support (the first version was macOS only). We’re also working on (safely) implementing the ability to create and edit notes.
While using AI wasn’t a requirement, this has been a really interesting opportunity to push what we can do with Claude Code2 while still maintaining a high level of code quality. We’re moving rapidly, but we’re not vibe coding. Us humans are working together to ensure that we’re building something that is of high quality and that we still have a deep understanding of it.
It’ll be interesting to what projects come out of all of this and how it affects our work going forward.
Follow along with our progress here:
https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-mcp
Obviously security, legal, T&S, etc considerations still apply. ↩︎One of the great things I’ve added to my workflow is the Emdash Coding Agent Dashboard which makes managing multiple Claude Code instances super simple. ↩︎
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