http://ericirwin.io/tags/mcp/Recent content in Mcp on Eric IrwinHugoen-usEric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://ericirwin.io/posts/the-ai-first-engineering-pattern/Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)http://ericirwin.io/posts/the-ai-first-engineering-pattern/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Building a platform like Swoop means juggling a mobile app, dashboards, APIs, infrastructure, and — more recently — AI agents. Over time, I built a workflow using Claude Code that treats all of it as one intelligent workspace: a single place where code, data, operations, and testing are deeply connected.</p> <p>The key insight: AI becomes genuinely useful when it shares your mental model of the system.</p> <p>When architecture, tooling, and context are explicit, Claude stops acting like autocomplete and starts reasoning like a teammate who understands your entire environment. This isn&rsquo;t about clever prompts — it&rsquo;s about teaching your workspace to think in context.</p>