alt Hacker NewsCLI doesn’t work for your coworkers that aren’t technical.
Have you tried to use a random API before? It’s a process of trial and error.
With the MCP tools I use, it works the first time and every time. There is no “figuring out.”
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>CLI doesn’t work for your coworkers that aren’t technical.
This actually isn't true. I've written bespoke CLI tools for my small business and non-technical people run them without issue. They get intimidated at first but within a day or so they're completely used to it - it's basically just magic incantations on a black box.
This should be trivial if you have proper API documentation in something like swagger. You can generate a cli tool with no "figuring out" anything either.
If you can't write a good CLI I doubt you could write a good MCP
MCP also doesn't work for coworkers that are technical. It works for their agents only.
CLI works for both agents and technical people. REST API works for both agents and technical people. MCP works only for agents (unless I can curl to it, there are some HTTP based ones)