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MCP was always a bad idea?

335 points · 331 comments · maharshi365

  1. rimeice · · focus · HN ↗
    I’m not sure I agree that the frontier just know the apis right now, in my experience trying this there’s still a lot of faffing around trying to figure out the right parameters happily burning tokens and bloating context. Also the cost effective models to use in production for real agentic enterprise work absolutely still need the extra help and will do for at least the next 6 months.
    1. maharshi365 · · focus · HN ↗
      In my experience they are very good at figuring out the apis. Well designed clis matter here but I've been able to give llms clis and its been pretty good.
      1. jgalt212 · · focus · HN ↗
        is it easier for an LLM to figure out a CLI or a REST API?
        1. dorianmariecom · · focus · HN ↗
          cli because the feedback loop is faster
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