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.

March 20, 2026 · 5 min · Zidane

I Spent 3 Hours Configuring MCP Servers Across 4 Editors. Then I Found add-mcp

Every AI coding tool stores MCP server config differently — Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex all use different files and formats. I wasted hours on manual setup before discovering add-mcp, a CLI that configures MCP servers across all your tools with a single command. Here’s why MCP fragmentation is the biggest DX problem in AI coding right now, and how the ecosystem is starting to fix it.

February 13, 2026 · 6 min · Zidane