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MCP is eating the world

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335 points emschwartz | 1 comments | 21 Jun 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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ramoz ◴[24 Jun 25 17:01 UTC] No.44368322[source]▶
9 times out of 10 my Claude Code is using a bash script before I hook up an MCP to it.

- less tokens required in context (CLAUDE.md vs CLAUDE.md + MCP bloat per request)

- native agent tooling, relying on Bash(my-script params)

- less black box (you & the coding agent can read the scripts)

MCPs are often wrapping restful apis. Turns out agents can use those just fine.

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1. Karrot_Kream ◴[24 Jun 25 17:20 UTC] No.44368508[source]▶
Yeah I wonder just how much MCP is needed when the models seem fine at making REST requests as is, especially if there's an OpenAPI or similar spec available.