Tools: Code Is All You Need

Honestly, I’m getting tired of these sweeping statements about what developers are supposed to be, how it’s “the right way to use AI”. We are in uncharted territories that are changing by the day. Maybe we have to drop the self-assurance and opinionated view points and tackle this like a scientific problem.

100% agreed - he mentions 3 barriers to using MCP over code: "cost, speed, and general reliability". But all 3 of these could change by 10-100x within a few years, if not months. Just recently OpenAI dropped the price of using o3 by 80%

This is not an environment where you can establish a durable manifesto