Why Skills Beat MCP
There’s a habit in AI tooling circles where every problem somehow ends at MCP. Need tool use? MCP. Need integrations? MCP. Need agents to touch real systems? Obviously MCP. I think that instinct is backwards. For a lot of real-world agent work, Skills are the better pattern. Not more elegant on a whiteboard. Better when you actually have to build, run, debug, and live with the thing. The reason is simple: we already have a pattern for this, and it has been working for decades. ...