> CLIs have had decades of design iteration. They’re composable, debuggable, and they piggyback on auth systems that already exist. MCP tried to build a better

> CLIs have had decades of design iteration. They’re composable, debuggable, and they piggyback on auth systems that already exist. MCP tried to build a better abstraction. Turns out we already had a pretty good one. I found MCP always cumbersome, and who would have thought that the cli, around since the dawn of digital computers and thoroughly saturated in the training data of every LLM, would be the better tool.