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SUMMARY:Darts in the Dark GitHub.com/stratione/mcp-lab - Noe Lorona
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DESCRIPTION:**Please clone and run /script 1&2 to download containers ahea
 d of workshop due to a slow wifi**\nAI models are sycophants. Ask one to m
 anage your infrastructure and it will confidently invent API responses\, f
 abricate deployment results\, and return whatever answer it thinks you wan
 t to hear. It is not lying\, it is optimized to please\, and it is very go
 od at sounding right even when it is shooting darts in the dark.\nThis wor
 kshop introduces attendees to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and demysti
 fies why tool calling changes the equation. Participants will deploy MCP s
 ervers hands-on\, then experience the before and after firsthand: the same
  model\, the same prompt\, completely different behavior once it has real 
 tools to call instead of blank space to fill.\nAll lab elements run locall
 y. Attendees can use an optional deployment of Ollama for a fully offline 
 experience or connect API keys to the LLM of their choice\, Anthropic\, Op
 enAI\, or Google Gemini. The github project will be available as a take ho
 me to continue learning after the conference.
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URL:https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/7WTCWJ/
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