alt Hacker NewsHaha in the world of AI/MCPs, all of a sudden we have a push for companies to properly build out APIs/CLI tools.
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One of the very few good things from the AI race has been everyone finally publishing more data APIs out in the open, and making their tools usable via CLIs (or extensible APIs).
But on the other hand a (possibly dark) pattern is emerging where companies are asking you to upgrade to a higher plan to access MCP.
I noted something similar a few weeks ago. Companies are finally putting APIs in front of things that should have had APIs for years!
yeah there's way more demand, and at the same time, it's way easier for the company to build and maintain (with the help of AI). Great to see!
Took them this long to realize MCPs are just worse APIs.
About 90% of “make codebase better for LLMs” is just good old fashioned better engineering that is also good for humans.
They aren't doing that though. At least not yet. It's generated from the discovery tool, which amounts to the spec of the existing API. If they want a high powered CLI they need to dig into the servers behind Google Workspace like they have when they've improved the web apps.
I have always said that if we had done for developers what we are doing for agents the whole world would have been a much better place.