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Show HN: An MCP server that lets AI agents request disability insurance quotes

https://github.com/seaworthy-io/seaworthy-mcp

Hi HN. I own an online insurance agency, a painfully old-school industry. I am not a developer. I vibe-coded it all in Claude Code, then reviewed and tested before anything shipped. Which is part of the story I guess, that a small firm with curious and reasonably capable people can now operate agent infrastructure that would have required a contractor two years ago.I'm trying this because a...

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Re:Everyone gets faster. Not everyone gets more valuable on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:54PM (#48848929)
i run a small insurance firm, 20 years in that domain, zero in software, and i recently vibe-coded my way into running agent infrastructure for the business, so i should stall at 80%. but I think that the judgment my project actually needed was mostly regarding insurance itself, and making sure the knowledge base it pulls from was sound, so I was able to use my experience on that side to produce what I hope is a useful product

the technical side is of course different and i don't have that judgment, so i try to get by with fresh-session reviews, testing, and keeping it on the simpler side because i know i can't audit the code myself. whether or not that proves to be a winning formula remains to be seen, but either way i think it's reasonable to say that some regular folk will stall at the 80% but others may figure out a way to power through it using caution and reason