Tools: Code Is All You Need

More appropriately: the terminal is all you need.

I have used MCP daily for a few months. I'm now down to a single MCP server: terminal (iTerm2). I have OpenAPI specs on hand if I ever need to provide them, but honestly shell commands and curl get you pretty damn far.

I never knew how far it was possible to go in bash shell with the built-in tools until I saw the LLMs use them.

Possibly because most people who could mentor you, would give up and switch to their preference of {Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, ...} far earlier.

(Check out Dave Eddy, though. https://github.com/bahamas10 ; also occasionally streams on YouTube and then creates short educational video content there: https://www.youtube.com/@yousuckatprogramming )

Spurred by macos switch to zsh, I've gone all in on zsh customization (with oh-my-zsh). But since I've moved to Linux, it's been bash daily (with a brief fish interlude). Everything under the sun works with bash.