gridctl

The discourse on platform engineering Twitter and Reddit has been pretty consistent for months now: Terraform is dead, HCL is dead, the entire Infrastructure as Code stack is about to get vaporized by autonomous agents that translate intent directly into cloud provider API calls. The 24-month clock is ticking. Pack up your .tfstate and go home. Another DEAD DEAD DEAD narrative emerges.

Here’s a question I got asked recently: If a skill can already call a REST API using Bash, why bother with MCP? The surface-level answer is “MCP is cleaner.” That’s not wrong, but it undersells what’s actually different - and I think it’s a genuinely useful distinction to understand if you’re serious about building reliable agent workflows. Also, common-sense needs a resurgence given the massive amount of all old things are DEAD when new thing comes out clickbait that is proliferating on LinkedIn.

If you’ve spent any time building with MCP servers, you know the drill. You start with one server, maybe two. Then suddenly you’re juggling a dozen configurations across three different LLM clients, and your claude_desktop_config.json looks like it was written during a caffeine-fueled fever dream. That’s roughly where I was when I started building gridctl.