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MCP was always a bad idea?

335 points · 331 comments · maharshi365

  1. baakwu · · focus · HN ↗
    MCP systems always felt like hacks. I haven't ever found one that satisfactorily interacted with a system as well as a good command line tool.

    They provide interaction for most of your GUI programs but often the limitations of the MCP systems leaves agents highly confused about how to execute something you see on screen, where command line systems the agents seem to work 99% of the time.

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