alt Hacker NewsSo basically the best way to use MCP is not to use it at all and just call the APIs directly or through a CLI. If those dont exist then wrapping the MCP into a CLI is the second best thing.
Makes you wonder whats the point of MCP
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paulddraper • today at 3:45 AM
MCP is just JSON-RPC plus dynamic OAuth plus some lifecycle things.
It’s a convention.
That everyone follows.
This was my initial understanding but if you want ai agents to do complex multi step workflows I.e. making data pipelines they just do so much better with MCP.
After I got the MCP working my case the performance difference was dramatic