@trq212: I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations. The models have…
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The author argues that Model Context Protocol (MCP) is superior to Command Line Interface (CLI) for most AI integrations, citing improved tool calling and statelessness.
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I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations.
The models have gotten much better at tool calling, we can defer tools & MCP is now stateless.
If you need to compose/filter data, add params like query to your MCP tools.
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