Plus 1, Goodnotes is such a well developed product. I also have an iPad screen guard which gives a paper like feel when writing which makes my brain think I am writing on a book.
If that's what you guys are bringing, you should put that more up front; focus on making it clear you're providing ingredients that Claude et al will not be providing on their own without Real Actual Software to do it.
There are a few tools in the space, but they each focus on parts:
- MCP Inspector (Anthropic's official tool) — interactive debugging, not CI-oriented
- MCP-Scan (Invariant Labs, now Snyk) — security scanning, focused on tool poisoning detection
- Promptfoo — LLM red teaming tool that added MCP support recently
- MCP Protocol Validator — spec compliance checking
MCPSpec tries to be the one tool that covers the full workflow: record, replay, mock, security audit, quality scoring, and CI setup. None of the above do recording/replay or mock generation.
As for standards — there aren't any yet. MCP itself moved under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025, and NIST launched an AI Agent Standards Initiative last month. But no conformance or testing standard exists. It's still early.
Question for the greater HN community? Would it help if software engineers demonstrate their skills on an ongoing basis via a third party which accesses them periodically without the pressure cooker environment of technical interviews and companies just do cultural fit type of interviews based on the previous assessments of their technical skills?
I would say get checked by doctor/Endocrinologist and do the relevant bloodwork (Esp. Insulin levels, thyroid, etc). A family member is overweight and nothing changed even with diet changes and regular exercise. It took a long time to find out the root issues (especially Insulin resistance). Once we got the root cause, they put the member on Wegovy (weekly Injection) and started a low carb diet and exercise. It is amazing to see the effect Wegovy has taken with the member's weight loss. Couldn't recommend it enough now for people with genuine weight loss issues.
The main downside of Wegovy/semaglutide is that it is incredibly pricey ($800-$1100 USD per month), and most US health insurance providers will not cover it as a front line treatment, and many won't approve it as a second line treatment without a good deal of aggressive lobbying by the prescriber. More than one physician has told me that it's often easier to get bariatric surgery approved than it is to get Wegovy approved!
This insurance issue isn't particularly unique among weight loss treatments with solid evidence-based proof of efficacy - US insurers rarely cover other typical frontline obesity treatments like phentermine + metformin, or bupropion + low dose naltrexone. These latter options are available very inexpensively as generics; semaglutide is only available in pricey branded formulations.
Yes. You are absolutely right. My family member can afford to pay for it fortunately. It might not be in the budget for majority of people though unless you are desperate and nothing else seems to work. It literally doesn't make sense why insurers don't cover this treatment which might just save them a lot of money later on down if the affected person has host of other issues due to being overweight.
How did you get the parenting professionals to write the guides? Did you pay out of your pocket to write the guides and be available for on-demand support initially? Reason I am asking is I am working on something in a different health field and want to know how to convince the right medical professionals to get onboard.
Great question. Worked hard to convince a couple of higher profile parenting professional to join as advisors. No cash but a tiny share of equity. Then used that and the early traction that I could demonstrate on the Instagram account and our MVP to approach other parenting professionals and it snowballed from here. But it took in between 2 to 6 months per professional (we ended up with 16 professional partners - unpaid for now until the app gains traction) so I'd say that you need to be very organized and approach many people in parallel. If you email me, I can share more details.
As a father of a toddler, kids will always cry and be terrified for any thing they try for the first time (i.e. at the hairdressers). You can't always reason with the kids who don't understand anything. Kids don't look at experiences as "interesting things going on". And every kid is different so don't compare kids as if they are the same.
I don't think anyone is in the position to judge other IQ's especially co-workers. These people passed the same interview loop as you. Just puts them in the same "IQ" bracket as you. Maybe they also feel the same way as you and don't want to put their effort in trying to turn this team around and just want to coast and switch later on. You need to get off your high horse and try to understand the motivations of the team by talking to them individually and bringing stuff up in standups/meetings and suggest ways to improve. Work with your manager. Maybe you can be the one who can turn this team around without burning out yourself. In the end, its just a job and trick is to not take everything personally.
reply