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owaiswiz··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
We do have an MCP but all it does is wraps our OpenAPI endpoints using a bunch of tools (not exposing the 100(0?)s of endpoints as tools), but just list_resources, list_endpoints, describe_endpoint, describe_ref, execute.

The primary reason we have this is because its easier for non-tech people to connect it to their AI Claude/ChatGPT/etc. than it is to have them generate an API key and give it the base url and the openapi spec/etc.

The MCP also allows us to add expose a couple of recipe/skill tools (list_skills/read_skill) which describe common workflows on how to use to do things that might be unclear.

owaiswiz··on Muse Spark 1.3
doesn't mean the raw text goes into training. they most likely have a pipeline to clean out any secrets before they train on it?
owaiswiz··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
not saying they do have a beefier pro, but even if they did, isn't the delta between flash vs pro models reduced quite a bit? (e.g glm 5.3 flash vs 5.3, v4 flash vs v4 pro, sonnet 5 vs opus 5)?
owaiswiz··on Domain-Driven Agents
Something i read in the earlier paragraphs about llms being easier to work with in greenfield projects…

My experience has been the opposite. They work well on existing projects but are not so great at new ones (unless you are just vibe coding something simple).

I think it has something to do with it being able to rely on years of established structure/conventions on existing projects that makes them better IME

owaiswiz··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
A few weeks ago, I lost my bluetooth earbuds in my house somewhere. It was still connected and nowhere to be found.

In my case, it wasn't able to come up with it, but fortunately I was, and had it build a local webpage that does "hot or cold" with a 0-100 score. And it worked first try! Found them in like 2-minutes.

Also made for a fun day of hot-and-cold hide-and-seek games with my niece after i had it built that concept as a sideloaded ipad app :)

owaiswiz··on Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
In case a direct p2p connection is not possible and it goes through the relay, is that for all traffic (even if encrypted )?

And who bears the cost for that (or does it have some FUP) (bandwidth cant be free/unlimited?)

owaiswiz··on How to earn a billion dollars
> She was getting richer at a stupendously rapid rate. And yet she hadn't been doing anything bad. The reason her startup was growing so fast was simply that users loved what she'd built. So she could feel from her own experience how wrong that politician was. She wasn't exploiting anyone.

I presume it's a company that just has co-founders then? Or everyone is getting an equal % of the share? In which case SHE's not getting 93% richer just cause her start up is.

owaiswiz··on Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
> Not in the middle of the fjord. Not halfway across the channel. The first three minutes

Easiest tell

owaiswiz··on How I improved our CI build time from 24mins to 8mins and reduced costs by 50%
At work, we have a big Rails app with lots of tests. Wrote about a bunch of things I did to speed up our CI workflow.

Most things should apply to other frameworks & platforms too though, it's not specific to Rails.