Notes from building software solo — MCP servers, AI coding agents, and the APIs underneath them. Everything here comes out of something I actually shipped and had to debug, so the numbers are real and the parts that did not work are in there too.
I run both daily on production Laravel and TypeScript work. Here is where each one wins, where the benchmark numbers stop being useful, and the workflow I settled on.
· claude code, codex, ai coding agents
The console path to an xAI API key, why the OpenAI SDK works unchanged, and a working Telegram bot — plus the billing detail that catches people out.
· grok, xai, api, bots
A practical walkthrough of building a production MCP server — tool design, transports, OAuth, and the failures that only show up once a real model starts calling it.
· mcp, tutorial, ai agents, laravel
MCP does not replace your API — it sits on top of one. Here is what changes when you add an MCP server, what does not, and when building one is a waste of time.
· mcp, api, ai agents