[iudqnolq]

I have a gut feeling that writing this kind of MCP server can't be the future of software development. I'd expect a two year old AI model to need this kind of handholding, but I don't understand why it's still necessary.

Couldn't any modern AI model know that Zig docs are relevant to the question, figure out how to find the docs, write some code to parse it, and guess how frequently to update it's cache?

I expect there to be plenty of problems AI can't write for the foreseeable future but they have a very different vibe from this.

Edit: I just asked Claude Sonnet 4 to pretend it has a tool that makes docs available that has an update frequency parameter. It said the zig stdlib should be updated weekly but the Java stdlib would only need quarterly. Seems reasonable to me.

[afirium]

That's exactly what zig-mcp does. It gives the LLM tools like search_std_lib, get_std_lib_item, and it decides when and how to use them based on context

[ramesh31]

Stop thinking of models as all-knowing oracles; they aren't and shouldn't be. They are reasoning engines. You will always need to provide relevant and up to date context for them to work with as ground level truth, and the quality of your results will be a function of the density and quality of that context, just as a human developer is far more effective with access to web search and documentation.