MCP on David Zhang | AI Engineering, Careers & Industry Deep-Dives https://ryrenz.com/tags/mcp/ Recent content in MCP on David Zhang | AI Engineering, Careers & Industry Deep-Dives Hugo -- 0.155.3 en-US Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:38:45 -0500 Stop Treating Your AI Like a Chatbot: The 4 MCP Tools That Gave My Agent a Brain https://ryrenz.com/ai/recommended-mcp-servers/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:38:45 -0500 https://ryrenz.com/ai/recommended-mcp-servers/ Explores the limitations of using LLMs as simple chatbots and introduces the Model-Context-Protocol (MCP), detailing four essential tools that provide context, planning, and memory to transform AI into a powerful, autonomous engineering partner. Tools vs. Skills vs. MCP https://ryrenz.com/ai/claude-code-tools-mcp-skills/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:13:42 -0500 https://ryrenz.com/ai/claude-code-tools-mcp-skills/ Clarifies the distinction between Tools (primitive functions), Skills (complex workflows), and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in agentic AI, providing an architectural framework for developers to choose the right abstraction for their use case.