A handy checklist to help you decide whether MCP makes sense for your product

MCP servers are popping up everywhere, and it’s not always obvious when you actually need one. That’s why I wrote this article. It’s based on hands-on experience: building my own MCP server and working with MCP servers on client projects.

Not every product needs an MCP, and it's also the most expensive option to maintain. Here, @valyay.bsky.social presents a framework to decide between direct API calls, CLI, Skills, and an MCP before you pull the lever. It includes what to trust, costs, and the soft spots worth watching:

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AI didn't remove complexity from software development. It moved it. Before AI, if you wanted to build something, you had to study the topic first. You had to understand the domain, the constraints, the architecture, and only then slowly turn that understanding into code.

I refreshed my limited knowledge of philosophy and came to this conclusion. Philosophy and AI actually are best friends 😄 Many people don’t understand how philosophy can help us solve practical, urgent problems.

Small open-source npm package? Same supply-chain risk. I’ve just updated astro-iubenda, a small Astro integration for using iubenda in @astro.build projects: github.com/Valyay/astro... Here are 6 supply-chain hardening techniques I added to the repo:

We already have memory for AI coding agents. It’s called git. And many teams are filling it with garbage: fix bug update styles refactor component

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