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Jiquan Ngiam
Personal blog · jngiam.bearblog.devaiprogramming
Jiquan Ngiam writes jngiam, a personal blog at jngiam.bearblog.dev about ai and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “MCPs, CLIs, and skills: when to use what?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jiquan Ngiam's blog for posts on LLM tool use with large data, arguing that code orchestration is simpler and more effective than LLM function calls that do not scale.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jiquan Ngiam's bear blog, co-founder Lutra AI, previously at Google Brain, Coursera, Stanford. linkedin @jngiam x/twitter @jiquanngiam lutra ai su...
Most-linked posts?
- MCPs, CLIs, and skills: when to use what?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
- LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-21
What Hacker News says?
Looks familiar, it seems to share some ideas with this one: LLM function calls dont scale, code orchestration is simpler, more effective Source: https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/ HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053744
Comment linking /mcp-large-data/
on “Tools: Code Is All You Need”Submitted LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective as a story · 282 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making agentic tool calling robust: 3 engineering patterns we use as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCPs, CLIs, and skills: when to use what? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCPs vs. APIs: Why designing tools for LLMs is different as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCPs, CLIs, and skills: when to use what? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using LaTeX is a great hack for generating PDFs with Claude Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The instruction that turns Claude into a self-improving system as a story · 1 points
HN discussion