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Attempting a full migration of a Node.js monolith using the new Cursor Composer agent. It wasn't magic, and I spent 3 hours debugging a hallucinated library.
Proprietary tool-calling is dead. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the first time I've felt like AI tools are actually composable.