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Tools: Code Is All You Need

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313 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 10:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mindwok ◴[03 Jul 25 12:48 UTC] No.44454469[source]▶
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.

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jasonthorsness ◴[03 Jul 25 13:36 UTC] No.44454928[source]▶
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.
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1. zahlman ◴[03 Jul 25 21:10 UTC] No.44459229[source]▶
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 )