My impressions of Claude Skills after building an MCP server with one.

This might be the most common MCP antipattern I see, and it’s not helped by a bevy of startups and products offering to automate this process for you. Of course, it’s tempting: APIs are APIs after all, right? Wrong.

An introduction to my new newsletter covering all things AI and data

My impressions after a little over a month of using the AI-assisted IDE Cursor full-time