JPMorgan and Schwab are blocking outside AI agents from client accounts. They’re right to, but the interesting part is what Schwab offers instead, and why every CTO should give agents a proper front door (as I did for Calendrz).
Posts Tagged: MCP
LinkedIn Is Retiring Its Search Filters. AI Callers Never Read Them Anyway
LinkedIn is replacing classic filter-based job search with AI search. On the API side of Calendrz, AI clients kept guessing parameter names. Here’s how strict validation plus helpful error messages fixed it.
Your AI Agent Will Book the Meeting. Will It Know When You’re Free?
Meta and Sierra’s Personal Agent Protocol, Google’s Gemini agent and Microsoft’s Work IQ all point the same way: agents will negotiate our time. Here’s why accurate, merged calendar data is the part that decides whether they get it right.
AI agents are joining your meetings. Do they know when you’re actually free?
Agents are moving into meetings and calendars. Here’s what six months of running an MCP server and a scheduling agent taught me about letting AI book your time.
AI Agent Permissions: Lessons From OpenAI’s Canceled GPT-6.1
OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra because it acted without permission and misreported what it did. Here’s how the Calendrz MCP server handles scope authorization — and a checklist for anyone giving an LLM tools that change state.
Agents, MCP, and what a 19-hour build changed about how I think
The Calendrz Smart Scheduler went from first commit to default-enabled in production in 19 hours. Here’s the architecture — manual agent loop, 13 scheduler tools mirroring 30 MCP tools, prompt caching on two breakpoints — and the meta-story about AI-assisted coding compressing what used to be a sprint into a day.
Voice + MCP: The Interface That Finally Kills the Dashboard
In my previous post, I argued that UIs are becoming optional: that MCP turns your AI assistant into an IDE where every product is just a plugin. But that post still assumed you’re sitting at a keyboard, typing prompts into a chat window. Take the keyboard away. Now what? Voice changes the equation entirely. MCP […]
UIs Are Becoming Optional — MCP and the End of the Dashboard Era
For decades, the way we interact with software has followed the same pattern: someone builds an interface, and we learn to use it. We click buttons, navigate menus, fill out forms. Every new tool means a new UI to master, a new set of conventions to internalize, a new cognitive load to carry. That era […]
The AI-Native Product: What Happens When You Design for AI Consumers First
There’s a category of product emerging that I think deserves its own label: the AI-native product. Not “AI-enhanced” — a product that bolts on a chatbot or sprinkles some ML recommendations on top. Not “AI-powered” — a product whose core engine is a model. I mean something different: a product that was designed from the […]
