alt Hacker NewsObligatory note - if you're a backend developer, you do not need MCP. MCP is just tool/function calling. It has been around for a lot longer now. MCP is only needed if you need something to integrate with the frontend chat applications. If you need to automate something with LLMs, you do not need MCP. Right now, it's just the new cool buzzword to throw around.
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AI coding tools have been improving/updating like craze over the past six months.
Honest question: what are some of the AI Dev tools (I prefer command line) that have leapt ahead recently, with good tool/function calling? Do you (or others) have a clear preference for Claude Code vs aider vs some other alternative? Or is the meta shifting toward the orchestrators like Taskmaster and Puppeteer?
You don't need to use RESTful JSON to get two computers to communicate with eachother, either. You can just implement your own thing, and if someone wants to interface with it, they can write their own adapter! Who needs decades of battle tested tooling? This can be a Not Invented Here safe-space. Why not.