Honest question: what are some of the AI Dev tools (I prefer command line) that have leapt ahead recently, with good tool/function calling? Do you (or others) have a clear preference for Claude Code vs aider vs some other alternative? Or is the meta shifting toward the orchestrators like Taskmaster and Puppeteer?
To answer your specific queries, I use the autocomplete in VS Code and I directly chat with ChatGPT-o3 for advanced problems because my background is in Elixir and most models that are hyped up fail badly with Elixir. I'm always a huge fan of o3 as it can solve the most complex problems I throw at it..
AND I can still use those same endpoints as tools. What would be the argument for "you don't need MCP when implementing new stuff"?
Because, to do the latter, the standard design is one hosted MCP server per vendor. If you use more than even 5, that's a lot of servers to maintain in a Saas context.