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Norah Sakal
Personal blog · norahsakal.com/blogaiprogramming
Norah Sakal writes AI Agents That Work Blog, a personal blog at norahsakal.com about ai and programming. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “MCP vs. API Explained”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Norah Sakal's posts on MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how it compares with APIs. Commenters use them to explain what MCP is for, as a standardized way to plug tools into models.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Step-by-step tutorials for developers building AI chatbots and agents. Learn GPT models, embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Solve chatbot issues, handle complex queries, and enhance e-commerce tools with practical AI examples and code.
Most-linked posts?
- MCP vs. API Explained3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-08
What Hacker News says?
It's trying to say "you can plug lots of things into this in a standardized way." https://norahsakal.com/blog/mcp-vs-api-model-context-protoco...
Comment linking /blog/mcp-vs-api-model-context-protocol-explained/
on “OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK”Submitted MCP vs. API Explained as a story · 186 points
HN discussionDid you read this one? https://norahsakal.com/blog/mcp-vs-api-model-context-protoco...
Comment linking /blog/mcp-vs-api-model-context-protocol-explained/
on “Everything wrong with MCP”Submitted Naive RAG is dead – long live agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vectorizing multimodal e-commerce product data with AWS Titan: a practical guide as a story · 2 points
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