alt Hacker NewsDoes it make sense to ship an MCP code mode API? I'm surprised you're recommending MCP as-is when concerned about context usage optimization. I don't have a lot of hands-on experience either way yet so I'm curious what's best and/or most popular... I understand MCP is less effort and still affordable at VC-subsidised prices.
for the integration piece that ties into Claude Code and other places where AI is used most frequently? yes I think it does... we're not fighting context in Opus/Sonnet as much as we are in smaller models and we're only adding about 6 tools here which is a smaller footprint than other MCP exposures. Smaller models have a more direct/tight interface that doesn't bloat the tool space in my experimentation (using the core directly)