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Their wordsThat doesn't mean MCP is dead. When a tool needs secrets or auth, an MCP server is still the right place to keep them
Their wordsBut for the kind of tools I was building, the models have come on so well that on a lot of occasions there isn't really a need for one.
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Their wordsSQLite is the AI engineer's workhorse. There's nothing to set up. Chuck a file in and off you go, and start doing stuff with it straight away.
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