Hacker News: jngiam1

New comment by jngiam1 in "MCP is dead?"

jngiam1 — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:30:21 +0000

I totally agree, we’ve been working with enterprises and MCP is the defacto way they are using agents with data.

New comment by jngiam1 in "MCP Hello Page"

jngiam1 — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:22:09 +0000

We build a gateway (MintMCP) and I’d love to connect and exchange notes.

We’re excited about XAA, it will simplify many flows

New comment by jngiam1 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

jngiam1 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:33:26 +0000

I don't get why everything is not marked as sensitive in env vars by default instead.

New comment by jngiam1 in "Schedule tasks on the web"

jngiam1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:38:44 +0000

MCP tools. We're doing some MCP bundling and giving it here, pretty cool stuff.

New comment by jngiam1 in "Schedule tasks on the web"

jngiam1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:38:08 +0000

This is powerful. Combined with MCPs, you can pretty much automate a ton of work.

New comment by jngiam1 in "Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent"

jngiam1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:44:22 +0000

We built a very similar thing! Also with git, very nice- if you’re looking for an enterprise ready version of this, hit me up

Love to discuss and see how we can make this more standard

MCPs, CLIs, and skills: when to use what?

jngiam1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcps-clis-and-skills-when-to-use-what/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356120

Points: 9

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New comment by jngiam1 in "Google Workspace CLI"

jngiam1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:51:09 +0000

Honestly, easier with MCP straight up: https://gmail.mintmcp.com/ https://gcal.mintmcp.com/ https://gdocs.mintmcp.com/ https://gsheets.mintmcp.com/

(all pass through)

New comment by jngiam1 in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

jngiam1 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:36:21 +0000

Exactly. and even if so, how are you going to safe guard tool access?

Imagine your favorite email provider has a CLI for reading and sending email - you're cool with the agent reading, but not sending. What are you going to do? Make 2 API keys? Make N API keys for each possible tool configuration you care about?

MCPs make this problem simple and easy to solve. CLIs don't.

I don't think OpenClaw will last that long without security solved well - and MCPs seem to be obvious solution, but actively rejected by that community.

New comment by jngiam1 in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

jngiam1 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:30:19 +0000

I think if you want background agents with sandboxes and well scoped permissions, you want MCP to be your data protocol and security layer.

If you’re vibing and doing the open claw thing without any security concerns; then you’re absolutely right.

New comment by jngiam1 in "SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks"

jngiam1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:33:46 +0000

The Skills I have for Claude are all based on personal preferences and reflects the setup I have going. It's a way to narrow the probability space to the specific set which works really well for me.

New comment by jngiam1 in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

jngiam1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:00:24 +0000

i've a simple setup with Claude Code and MCPs; and i get real benefits from better task mgmt, email mgmt, calendar, health/food/fitness tracking, working together with claude on tasks (that go into md files).

i don't think we need ClawdBot, but we do need a way to easily interact with the model such that it can create long term memories (likely as files).

Using LaTeX is a great hack for generating PDFs with Claude Code

jngiam1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:45:31 +0000

Article URL: https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/latex-is-a-great-hack-for-generating-pdfs-with-claude-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864660

Points: 2

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The instruction that turns Claude into a self-improving system

jngiam1 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:08:18 +0000

Article URL: https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/the-instruction-that-turns-claude-into-a-self-improving-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826947

Points: 1

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New comment by jngiam1 in "GPT Image 1.5"

jngiam1 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:30:24 +0000

The mirror test is cool!

New comment by jngiam1 in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

jngiam1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:05:44 +0000

Store/ version with git, throw Claude code at it, and it’ll be amazing

Virtual MCP Servers: A Use Case-Driven Solution to Tool Overload

jngiam1 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:25:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pulsemcp.com/posts/virtual-mcp-servers-and-gateways

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084119

Points: 2

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New comment by jngiam1 in "[dead]"

jngiam1 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:15:38 +0000

Lutra is a native code-mode AI agent that: (a) converts all tools into functions available in a coding environment, (b) uses LLMs to produce code that orchestrates across those tools, (c) has a custom stateless code interpreter to make it all work securely and well.

New comment by jngiam1 in "What if you don't need MCP at all?"

jngiam1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:31:58 +0000

There’s too much rage baiting on the internet now; the headlines that take the extreme position get reshared, while the truth is more in the middle.

New comment by jngiam1 in "What if you don't need MCP at all?"

jngiam1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:30:26 +0000

This is the key. MCP encapsulates tools, auth, instructions.

We always need something for that - and it needs to work for non tech users too