Tools: Code Is All You Need

We’re playing an endless cat and mouse game of capabilities between old and new right now.

Claude Code shows that the models can excel at using “old” programmatic interfaces (CLIs) to do Real Work™.

MCP is a way to dynamically provide “new” programmatic interfaces to the models.

At some point this will start to converge, or at least appear to do so, as the majority of tools a model needs will be in its pre-training set.

Then we’ll argue about MPPP (model pre-training protocol pipeline), and how to reduce knowledge pollution of all the LLM-generated tools we’re passing to the model.

Eventually we’ll publish the Merrium-Webster Model Tool Dictionary (MWMTD), surfacing all of the approved tools hidden in the pre-training set.

Then the kids will come up with Model Context Slang (MCS), in an attempt to use the models to dynamically choose unapproved tools, for much fun and enjoyment.

Ad infinitum.