Why I Built a OneDrive Writeback MCP Server

I run a Claude "chat" project I mostly use from the Claude mobile app, and it needs to keep certain files up to date. I'd already run into this same problem with mail and calendar, and wrote about building a narrow, write-only MCP server for those after neither Anthropic's Microsoft 365 connector nor any workaround … Continue reading Why I Built a OneDrive Writeback MCP Server →

Why I Built an Outlook Writeback MCP Server

I have a Claude project set up as a standing assistant — it already holds the context for a task I do on a recurring weekly basis, and I wanted it to act on that context instead of just handing it back to me to act on manually. Two specific asks tripped me up. Trip … Continue reading Why I Built an Outlook Writeback MCP Server →

Five Questions to Ask Before You Give an AI Agent Write Access

Why I'm writing this I recently hooked Claude up to this blog's WordPress.com site through MCP so I could draft and edit posts without copy-pasting Markdown into the editor by hand. Convenient — but it's also an AI agent with write access to my site, and "convenient" and "safe" aren't the same claim. WordPress shipped … Continue reading Five Questions to Ask Before You Give an AI Agent Write Access →

Lessons Learned from Vibe Coding

Here are some lessons that I've learned after a few months of using AI in my day-to-day work as an SDET. You are human in the loop Keep in mind that you are the human in the loop who is ultimately in charge of what your AI system generates. The AI system only has a … Continue reading Lessons Learned from Vibe Coding →