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I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)

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I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)

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The Great Agent Tooling Debate | Pere Villega

Load 84 MCP tools and 15,540 tokens are gone before you ask a question; after thirty minutes you've burned 40% of your context on tool definitions you didn't use. Holmes and Yilmaz make the case for CLI-first, and I've mostly come round: CLIs are debuggable, composable, and 92-98% cheaper in tokens. MCP still earns its keep for a few tools, but the default should flip.

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Claude Code as Infrastructure

Claude Code is not an IDE feature. It is infrastructure. 84 hooks, 48 skills, 19 agents, and 15,000 lines of orchestration prove the point.

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Getting started with Claude Code

Claude Code is a powerful CLI based coding agent. It comes with MCP support which enables it to use external tools like web browsers to automatically validate a

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