Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?

The GitHub Podcast breaks down five common AI hot takes one by one. Key conclusions: AI-generated code still needs review scaled to risk; Skills and MCP solve different problems, with MCP providing a standard for tool and data access while Skills package team workflows and best practices in Markdown, making them complementary; RAG is not dead—retrieval brings models closer to answers and can coexist with agents, MCP, and Skills in the same workflow.