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Wacky union types, tool call limits, and MCP servers scoped by use case. Chris Bell from Knock shares learnings from exposing their Management API to LLMs.

Welcoming Eric MacBlane to the Stainless team ✱ Eric joins us from Hebbia, where he oversaw the post-sales team including business operations and engagement. Prior to Hebbia, he co-founded a project financing startup for home contractors and ran operations for a COVID testing startup.

"Engineers want to control the input and control the outputs, but that's very antithetical to how models work because they love unstructured inputs, unstructured outputs." Shashank Goyal from OpenRouter on what the future of MCP could look like in just a few years. https://lnkd.in/e7rwgcRH

🧪 Two big upgrades for our generated Java and Kotlin SDKs:  💡 Built-in GraalVM reachability metadata  ✱ Smaller, faster native binaries  ✱ No manual config required  🌱 Spring Boot starter package  ✱ Auto-wires your SDK for easy setup in Spring apps Enable them in the `publish` section in the Stainless Config: ✱ Java: https://lnkd.in/e877_Bhj ✱ Kotlin: https://lnkd.in/e_kkzJnf

"You wouldn’t parse JSON by hand. Why ask an LLM to?" Michael Cohen from Anthropic points out that LLMs reason better when code mirrors how humans think. Strongly typed languages like TypeScript give models clearer context and tend to outperform untyped ones like Python.

We're excited to welcome Max Freundlich to the Stainless team ✱ Max joins us from Steamship where he designed and built user experiences for long-running agentic workflows. Before that, he was at LaunchDarkly working on tools for identifying stale feature flags.

💻 Your API docs, now with PowerShell and cURL snippets out of the box When you generate an OpenAPI spec with `x-codeSamples`, Stainless now includes curl and powershell snippets automatically. Perfect for docs powered by Mintlify, ReadMe, and others.

🛠️ Publish Docker images for your MCP server Stainless now generates a containerized MCP server on release, complete with a Dockerfile, tags script, and GitHub Actions workflow. Just connect your Docker registry and you're ready to `docker run yourorg/your-mcp`.

We're excited to welcome Jeremy Galossi to the Stainless team ✱ Jeremy joins us from CharacterAI where he helped scale their core engineering, product, design, and leadership teams. Previously, he helped build the technical and leadership teams at Instabase, Dropbox, Asana, and Facebook.

You can now download a built artifact of your TypeScript or Python SDK to inspect, test, or share your SDKs ahead of release 🔍 ✱ TypeScript - tarball with the compiled JavaScript files ✱ Python - wheel file