alt Hacker NewsWhy are they not calling APIs directly with strictly defined inputs and outputs like every other internal application?
The story for MCP just makes no sense, especially in an enterprise.
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woeirua • yesterday at 5:13 AM
MCP really only makes sense for chatbots that don’t want to have per session runtime environments. In that context, MCP makes perfect sense. It’s just an adapter between an LLM and an API. If you have access to an execution engine, then yes CLI + skills is superior.
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MCP is an API with strictly defined inputs and outputs.