Darts in the Dark: Why Models Need Tools — DevOpsDays Austin 2026
Delivered May 6, 2026. Workshop on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Attendees stood up MCP servers locally, connected them to Ollama and to Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, and compared model behavior with and without tool access. Key takeaways: models without tools confabulate ("darts in the dark"); MCP gives them grounded actions; the same lab runs offline on a laptop or against any major provider.
https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/7WTCWJ/