benkaiser
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Comment · 1 month ago
Might be more for enterprise, but Microsoft has had Scout for a couple months now too:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/0...
(Disclaimer: work at Microsoft, but not in the Scout team)
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm assuming real estate
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks! Very valid feedback about the generic branding. Most of my focus has been on getting the app to a dogfooding level where it clearly replaces the last personal CRM I self-hosted (Monica).
People are definitely more likely to roll their own solutions these days, and hey, Mob is actually open source and supports taking it and forking it how users want. The point of the hosted service is still about serving a large chunk of people that can't even be bothered using a proper agent, let alone hosting it somewhere, although given that is a small or non-existent segment of "uses MCP servers" and "can't host something themselves". Maybe when using remote MCP servers hits mainstream adoption.
Comment · 3 months ago
I have loved using Monica CRM for several years, but often times when clicking around the UI it just felt overly laborious compared to just speaking what I wanted to record. So over the last few months I've been putting together an alternative to Monica but with MCP usage first-class. It's open source under FSL-1.1-MIT, relatively lightweight (Node.js + SQLite) and makes managing your contacts very easy via natural language in your agents.
Happy to answer any questions!
Comment · 6 months ago
Often there are "abliterated" or "uncensored" tuned models that suppress the rejections. From my high level understanding it is performed by finding which weights activate for the rejection and lowering those so the model is less likely to reject.
It doesn't fix if the model doesn't know what you're asking it though (i.e. if the model never actually learned about meth production in the first place).
Comment · 6 months ago
For those looking for mobile support connecting to remote MCP servers, I maintain a source-available chat app that does exactly that (uses OpenRouter for inference): https://benkaiser.github.io/joey-mcp-client/
Comment · 8 months ago
Would be nice if the MCP implemented the Streamable HTTP MCP spec instead of the CLI one. I know this is already a HTTP API, but making it available as an MCP server that clients like Joey[1] can consume easily over network would be nice.
Comment · 8 months ago
One key aspect that is missed here, is mobile users.
iOS don't have a CLI, Android phones... kinda have a CLI, but it's not really usable by all apps / universal like it is on desktop.
I've been putting together a MCP client for mobile recently [1] since to me it seems apparent that Remote MCP is a great utility but none of the major players offer it without a paid subscription.
As other commenters have mentioned, the use case here is really not for software developers, it's for everyone else. It's bringing that agentic loop to do all those "personal assistant" type things in a connected way with all of your services. We're not there yet, but maybe some day.
Comment · 9 months ago
Am a software engineer at Microsoft using a M3 MBP, opinions are my own and all. Honestly one (of many) reasons I opted to go through the exception process to request a macbook was the screen brightness. The fact you can run software to boost the screen to HDR brightness levels for SDR content is insanely useful for working outside.
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