Stop Treating Your AI Like a Chatbot: The 4 MCP Tools That Gave My Agent a Brain
Most developers are using AI wrong. They treat it like a glorified Google Search or a junior intern they have to micromanage. They paste a snippet of code, wait for a fix, copy it back, realize it’s broken, and repeat the cycle until they want to throw their laptop out the window. That’s not engineering; that’s just a faster way to write bad code. The real power of Large Language Models (LLMs) isn’t in their training data—it’s in their context. An isolated model is a brain in a jar. But give it the right tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and suddenly you have a senior engineer pairing with you. ...