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            <description><![CDATA[Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thin API wrappers dump orchestration onto the model. Useful MCP servers encode a workflow, its domain rules, and its safety boundaries.]]></description>
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