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the maintenance burden is the real MCP killer nobody talks about. ... for dev tooling? just write better CLIs. You realize those custom CLIs you're writing w
by senordevnyc 8mo ago
the maintenance burden is the real MCP killer nobody talks about.
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for dev tooling? just write better CLIs.
You realize those custom CLIs you're writing will now need to be maintained too, right?
- tcbrah 7mo agofair point, but there's a difference between maintaining a CLI you own vs depending on a third party to maintain a wrapper around an API you could call directly. not to mention the mcp protocol is fairly nascent whereas CLIs are much more battle-tested
- g947o 7mo agoWhich is why you should use official MCP servers, and plenty of products do offer an official MCP server.