Stumbling into AI: Part 6—I've been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong

Ever tried to hammer a nail in with a potato? Nor me, but that’s what I’ve felt like I’ve been attempting to do when trying to really understand agents, as well as to come up with an example agent to build. As I wrote about previously , citing Simon Willison, an LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal . Unlike building ETL/ELT pipelines, these were some new concepts that I was struggling…