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manveercon Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

This is not true by default. There are plenty of poorly implemented MCP servers which do that. The MCP spec supports Oauth and intends to avoid that but it is not enforced.

manveercon Claude Sonnet 5

Totally agreed. I sometimes wonder if they are making the model "lazy" with each iteration, it keeps getting better at avoiding work.

manveercon Arcade just raised $60M. Here's the problem we've been building to solve

Congratulations on the milestone! Arcade is the best product for solving reliability and security in the action layer. It’s a no-brainer, given the team.

manveercon Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

And time to value is another dimension. In your case finding the right person, scheduling the project, you implementing and delivering at best is a week if not more. With AI they get it in seconds. I may have fudged the numbers but the scale relative gains likely will be same.

manveercon SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

WhatsApp had real network effects built in, and network was the moat. Don’t think Cursor has any real moat.

manveercon Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

Well i built an equivalent of OpenClaw using Claude Code and hooking it up with WhatsApp. For mew I'm currently using it for following things

1. Morning brief + meeting preps 2. Managing client work and action items (tracking status, deliverables, etc) 3. Executing our AI workflows on my laptop. We have built several AI workflows for our agency and this setup gives the ability to seamlessly execute and control them through both mobile and desktop

Next on my to-do list is to build additional workfows for me and my wife around family logistics (travel, childcare, etc)

manveercon WebMCP is available for early preview

Are you asking if Agents should use API?

manveercon WebMCP is available for early preview

In my opinion sites that want agent access should expose server-side MCP, server owns the tools, no browser middleman. Already works today.

Sites that don’t want it will keep blocking. WebMCP doesn’t change that.

Your point about selenium is absolutely right. WebMCP is an unnecessary standard. Same developer effort as server-side MCP but routed through the browser, creating a copy that drifts from the actual UI. For the long tail that won’t build any agent interface, the browser should just get smarter at reading what’s already there.

Wrote about it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/manveerc/p/webmcp-false-econom...

manveercon Meta is wrong to try to sneak into facial recognition with Ray-Ban glasses

Oh yeah I agree it’s bad. I just meant, company has no morals. It is very data hungry and doesn’t care about people’s privacy.

And with respect to past tense, I don’t know if they still do when they were caught red handed about some of these things. Unless there is a court order I am sure they still do, but I have no proof point.

manveercon Meta is wrong to try to sneak into facial recognition with Ray-Ban glasses

Not something new. They were recording audio on Facebook app and messenger for the longest time without a people using the microphone. They were tracking people using network data. The list is pretty long.

manveercon AI SRE needs better observability, not bigger models

Thats a good question. I would recommend MCP for the bulk of 'chatty' soft data to keep the database clean. However, you should selectively ingest 'high value' data into ClickHouse for vector search.

For e.g. you wouldn't ingest every 'good morning' message. But once an incident is resolved, you could ETL specific threads (filtering out noise) and the resulting RCA into ClickHouse as a vectorized document. That way, the copilot can recall the solution 6 months later without depending on Slack.

manveercon World Economic Forum: Top Emerging Technologies of 2025

The interesting part is that only one of them is software only. I get it is economists but I guess this is also telling that while AI is really talk of town in silicon valley, long term it is one, minor if I may, part of the future.

manveercon How Microsoft's developers are using AI

Yes! And the layoffs

manveercon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

https://www.tryzenith.ai

We are a service to help brands navigate the new world of AI agents. Currently focused on helping them increase visibility in AI search but we plan to go beyond that.

manveercon Show HN: Rankly – The only AEO platform to track AI visibility and conversions

As someone building a service around AEO (tryzenith.ai), I am curious how are you connecting which prompt drove traffic? No AI engine provides that

manveercon Ups and FedEx grounding MD-11 planes following deadly Kentucky crash

Thanks, will keep this in mind for future. Unable to change now.

manveercon ChatGPT tricked to swipe sensitive data from Gmail

> Unlike most prompt injections, the researchers said Shadow Leak executed on OpenAI’s cloud infrastructure and leaked data directly from there. This makes it invisible to standard cyber defenses, they wrote.

manveercon Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies and your employer

Yeah the head line was clickbaity

manveercon Heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies

https://archive.ph/QD3s5

manveercon Coffee naps might be the weirdest–and smartest–way to recharge

If only this becomes an accepted industry wide practice as against 9-9-6

manveercon BLS revision shows annual hiring was overstated by 911,000 jobs

Anecdotally what I have seen is that these (tech) companies are not hiring much in US and if they are hiring, its in offshore locations. So yes 2025 seems better in terms of fewer layoffs but it doesn't really help the overall situation in the US.

manveercon GPT-5 Pro is suited for solving hard problems

I was trying to plan for some data analysis. Tried it few times with GPT5 Pro, it failed almost every time. It only succeeded once. While I didn’t had any issue with Thinking model.

manveercon YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

Wonder what’s the cause of decline in views. One plausible reaction I had was that views might be down because of people using AI search (ChatGPT, etc) which unlike Google don’t show videos prominently. But since likes haven’t gone down that doesn’t seem likely.

manveercon GPT-5 Pro is suited for solving hard problems

For me 9/10 requests with GPT-5 Pro failed for some weird reason. This never happened with previous models. I ended up downgrading my subscription, I realized I wasn’t using it enough. And for me thinking mode has been good enough.

manveercon The HIRE Act: 25% tax on outsourcing

Referring to software and hardware talent, which are the biggest target for this

manveercon The HIRE Act: 25% tax on outsourcing

While I understand the rationale, is there enough talent in US to make up for the theoretical additional demand this can generate?

manveercon Why language models hallucinate

That’s more elegantly put than I ever can.

Btw I am not disagreeing with the utility of LLMs, my point is it can never be 100% accurate with current architecture (unless you blow up the size).

manveercon Why language models hallucinate

Maybe I am oversimplifying it, but isn’t the reason that they are lossy map of worlds knowledge and this map will never be fully accurate unless it is the same size as the knowledge base.

The ability to learn patterns and generalize from them adds to this problem, because people then start using it for usecases it will never be able to solve 100% accurately (because of the lossy map nature).

manveercon On Becoming an Engineer at Dropbox

Hello hello Nikrad, it’s a well written blog. Love the authenticity:)

manveercon Parallel AI agents are a game changer

When I read the title, I thought you were referring to https://parallel.ai, which also is a game changer in my opinion :)

PS: I have no affiliation with Parallel the company