> Exactly. There are so many replies here of the form “MCP sucks. If you just do <all the things mcp does a different way> you don’t need mcp at all.”

See my previous reply to simonw elsethread.

It's not "If you just do <all the things mcp does a different way> you don’t need mcp at all", it's that many of us were already doing that in a CLI prior to LLMs. You think only github and amazon had CLI clients?

I think the point of those comments is this could have been much simpler for everyone if the model providers had given us some tools around existing standards.

Instead they invented something new/weird/complex standard, and then every client implemented slightly differently (and different parts of it).