alt Hacker NewsMCP only exists because there's no easy way for AI to run commands on servers.
Oh wait there's ssh. I guess it's because there's no way to tell AI agents what the tool does, or when to invoke it... Except that AI pretty much knows the syntax of all of the standard tools, even sed, jq, etc...
Yeah, ssh should've been the norm, but someone is getting promoted for inventing MCP
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ekianjo • today at 10:18 AM
Agents can't write bash correctly so... I wonder about your claim
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No it’s more like - because AI can’t know every endpoint and what it does, so MCP allows for injecting the endpoints and a description into context so the ai can choose the right tool without additions steps