The manual MCP setup slog the author refused to do himself
dfinke · x · 2026-10-08
The author describes the manual slog — open VS Code, write an mcp., point it at localhost, start the server, watch it connect, tweak, repeat. He didn't want to do any of it, so he didn't: Codex handled the whole thing.
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