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We Benchmarked MCP Against Code Generation. MCP Won (Mostly).

TL;DR: For a small, well-designed API (10 tools), structured MCP tool calls consistently outscore code generation on correctness — 0.99 vs 0.97 — and the gap concentrates in tasks where domain-specific logic matters. Adding a reference document to MCP tools costs 6–14% more tokens with zero accuracy gain. Cloudflare’s search+execute pattern matches MCP accuracy but uses more tokens. With MCP tools, Haiku is within 1% of Opus at 1/12 the cost. ...

March 18, 2026 · 12 min · npow

Finding the Human in the Machine

50+ open-source orgs are rebuilding how they evaluate contributors. Here’s what’s emerging.

March 6, 2026 · 8 min · npow

Hidden Technical Debt in Agentic Systems

Agentic systems are replaying hidden technical debt from early ML, and the missing control plane is where the biggest risk accumulates.

March 5, 2026 · 8 min · npow

The Workflow Orchestration Landscape — March 2026

A comparative map of workflow orchestration platforms as of March 2026, covering execution maturity, product vision, and market positioning.

March 4, 2026 · 13 min · npow

Finding Nebraska

The xkcd comic shows one person in Nebraska holding up the internet. Who is it?

March 3, 2026 · 5 min · npow