MCP Servers I Actually Use Daily (And 5 That Were Overhyped)
After running MCP servers in my daily workflow for months, here’s what’s genuinely useful versus what sounded great in a demo and quietly disappeared from my setup.
Developer-Tools
Cursor Automations: I Let Always-On Agents Run My Code Reviews for a Week
Cursor launched Automations on March 5, letting you set up always-on agents triggered by code changes, Slack messages, or PagerDuty alerts. After a week of testing, here’s what it actually looks like to manage a team where agents review every PR before a human even opens it.
I Ran 5 AI Code Review Tools on the Same PR. Only 2 Were Useful
I ran the same 612-line TypeScript PR through five AI review agents to see which ones actually reduce reviewer workload. Two were consistently useful, two were mostly noisy, and one missed the highest-risk issue entirely. If you’re a tech lead choosing review tooling, this is the practical tradeoff breakdown.