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New comment by robotobos in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

robotobos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:26:33 +0000

Haha sorry for the callout! Saw the M-dash and auto-assumed. Nice write up and thanks for sharing :)

New comment by robotobos in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

robotobos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:25:44 +0000

There's definitely some optimization that can occur, like an orchestrator or Ralph.

New comment by robotobos in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

robotobos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:24:49 +0000

Have not tried, but interesting. I guess my concern would be the Skill still takes up context space, where as MCP is just using CPU.

New comment by robotobos in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

robotobos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:23:51 +0000

Saying "non-repeatable" was probably wrong. "Unique" might be better. Things LLMs arent naturally able to do or infer.

New comment by robotobos in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

robotobos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:24:14 +0000

If the model can figure it out with tokens, but my institutional knowledge MCP tool can do it with a few CPU cycles, it’s faster and deterministic and repeatable.

New comment by robotobos in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

robotobos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:15:37 +0000

Despite thinking this is AI-generated, I agree but everything has a caveat.

Skills are good for instilling non-repeatable, yet intuitive or institutional knowledge.

MCP’s are great for custom, repeatable tasks. After 5-10 runs of watching my LLM write the same exact script, I just asked it to hardcode the solution and make it a tool. The result is runs are way faster and repeatable.