Shawn Zhu

Shawn Zhu

Founding Engineer @ Ariso
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Founding engineer at Ariso Intelligence, leading AIOps and Research. I'm building the operational culture behind production AI — evidence over guesswork, logs and traces over hunches, fixes that stay fixed. Currently: Ari, meeting intelligence, Workspace integrations, and open source meeting notes taker named Oats

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6mo ago

The reality of building on MCP: Is the friction worth it?

We ve spent the last few months moving our Google Workspace tools over to the Model Context Protocol (MCP). While the potential for 'agentic' workflows is huge, but the friction of working on the edge of a new protocol is very real.

For those who haven't dived in yet, the biggest hurdle we found was the Remote vs. Local setup, rather than the protocol itself. Most tutorials focus on local command-line installs, but for a production-ready SaaS, you have to build for remote MCP servers. This requires a completely different approach to authentication and persistent state that the current docs don't fully cover yet.

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