WHY YOUR AI AGENT IS DROWNING IN TOOLS (AND HOW CODE MODE SAVES IT)

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Too many MCP tools bloat context and cause hallucinations. Two fixes include reducing tools (filter agent-side or design fewer use-case-driven ones MCP-side), or use “code mode.” This means give the LLM the ability to search and execute, let it write code against a generated SDK, and run multi-step workflows in a sandbox.