Cloudflare named code mode in September 2025, resting it on one line: "LLMs are better at writing code to call MCP, than at calling MCP directly." The follow-up post put a number on it — an entire 2,500-endpoint API in about 1,000 tokens. I wanted my own number, on my own data, for a task I actually had. The task fetch all linear tickets in progress (full body for each) and count the amount of times we say 'mcp' across all of it 39 tickets. Nothing exotic — the kind o...