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It is just a wrapper around an API call. And that's all you need for magic.

Explain how I would do this without an LLM:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/gemini-figured-out-my-...

Is this a trick question? You lay out exactly how you would do this without an LLM in the prompt...

The whole point of this is I didn't need to come up with a strategy for figuring out a kid's name. The LLM has enough intelligence to do it.

Put another way now that I have the MCP in place I no longer need to write any programs to do these tasks (unless you consider my prompt to be the program).

I used it to find the name of a different person's kid. And it used a different set of queries than the one I sent you. How are you going to encode all possibilities merely by using an API?

I use the exact same MCP tool to summarize emails, get me links from emails etc. You want me to write a program for each use case when I can do it all with just one program?

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