> 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?