Introduction: From Day-Long Tasks to Minutes with Claude + MCP Last week, I faced a daunting task: implementing Kerberos authentication for my Hadoop cluster on EC2. (Yes I could use EMR but it’s waaaay to expensive). For those unfamiliar, Kerberos is a complex network authentication protocol that typically requires careful configuration across multiple files and services. This would normally take me a full day of work, reading documentation, and troubleshooting errors. Instead, I spent 10 minut...