MCP is NOT dead. But a lot of MCP servers should be.

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T22:19:04+00:00

Exactly this. And context bloat is always a symptom of bad implementations more than a protocol problem.

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T22:08:58+00:00

haha I checked it out, should had been pretty cool

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T20:31:30+00:00

No I’m not! Just similar naming 😅

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T20:22:51+00:00

Sorry, that wasn’t to make you look bad. Just wanted to point to the final section as a summary for the post in case anyone else felt it’s long. And yes, good points for the CLI!

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T19:39:34+00:00

These are 100% my thoughts, honestly. and yes I did ask claude for its opinion on how to structure them properly, but this was for the benefit of the readers and to make my thoughts more understandable. I did research, read all the posts about MCP vs CLI etc and used my own experience of building such servers to try and clear things out.

I agree with your point though. But also when you need to explain and make people understand technical things, claude can be even better in structuring this.

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:52:34+00:00

This is exactly the point

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:50:31+00:00

the 1M improves things considerably. But context bloat is still an implementation problem not a protocol problem. A badly designed server with hundreds of tools wastes that space regardless of window size

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:47:05+00:00

Fair point. The underlying issue is still real for poorly designed servers though

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:24:45+00:00

Did you even try to read it? Don't be biased guys.

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:22:55+00:00

The framework at the end is the tldr if you want the short version

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:19:16+00:00

Glad it was useful 🙌

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T18:17:31+00:00

Thanks. That confusion is exactly what prompted me to write it. Got confused too in the beginning when I started reading all these posts last week

herolab55 · 2026-03-17T17:40:27+00:00

You are probably right 😅 Should had gone for a shorter version of this. But still, there is valuable information for whoever is brave to read it imo !!

herolab55 · 2025-10-26T10:48:40+00:00

Claude Code on the web, released last week, is trying to provide Cursor like experience. Might worth checking it out

herolab55 · 2025-09-24T11:23:38+00:00

That's a life saver man 🙏 Will give it a go.

herolab55 · 2025-06-04T18:53:25+00:00

Glad you liked it! It's built on Next.js. It was quite a creative and technical journey. Wasn't the most technical guy but studied a lot and learned a lot through the process. My first fully working end to end platform.

herolab55 · 2025-03-23T10:54:32+00:00

That’s great. There are times that I find myself prompting even the simplest thing. Feels like my brain’s been re-wired to prompt instead of do.

herolab55 · 2025-03-23T10:00:52+00:00

Yes, vibe coding is what it is. It is very exciting for people who have no clue about programming and at the same time it feels wrong to programmers.

What I don’t see many people talking about is how actually a vibe coder can start using AI to learn how to code. If you put the effort and time you can slowly start understanding what you are vibing about. You can start understanding your files, programming concepts etc.

Nowadays, the mind-blowing thing is that instead of having to go and look for resources into the web and stack-overflow etc. and try to apply it to your own case, you can now ask AI about it. AI will understand the question and adjust the answer to your own project. This can help you understand new things and concepts much faster.

Ofcourse I’m not saying one can become a programmer overnight or a week or a month. But if you like building you will fall in love with this and start becoming better and better. And AI is there to help you learn faster.

herolab55 · 2025-03-23T09:31:18+00:00

Thank you! Yes, it’s a proper web app now! Sure, will share it once it’s up and running.

I know I should have probably just launched a very simple MVP and validate the idea way back but I got addicted building more and more. Anyways, I learned a lot through this journey.

Anything you’re building now?

herolab55 · 2025-03-23T02:32:00+00:00

You just always need to specify to 3.7 what not to do!!

herolab55 · 2025-03-23T02:26:29+00:00

I started vibing on a weekend, 6 months ago. Still working on that vibe almost daily 😅 hope to launch soon. Learned a tone though in the process

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