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Is MCP dead? What the Model Context Protocol is in 2026, and when a CLI beats it

MCP has a new spec revision, a Linux Foundation home and a loud group of critics. Here is where each stands, read from the spec, Anthropic, Cloudflare, Claude Code's docs and the critic's own post, plus five rules for choosing an MCP server or a CLI.

Aliteq Team · 15h ago · 12 min

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AI agent keeps making the same mistake? Harness engineering, explained

The model is only one part of an agent. The loop, the tools, the permissions and the memory around it are the harness, and in 2026 OpenAI, Anthropic and Mitchell Hashimoto all described fixing agents there instead of in the prompt. Here is what that means and where the name came from.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min

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The moment your AI stops writing text and starts doing things

A model on its own can only talk. Tools let it act inside your app; agents let it choose their own next step — and that's where the power and the risk both come from.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min