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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: 0s | source
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neya ◴[24 Jun 25 18:00 UTC] No.44368934[source]▶
Obligatory note - if you're a backend developer, you do not need MCP. MCP is just tool/function calling. It has been around for a lot longer now. MCP is only needed if you need something to integrate with the frontend chat applications. If you need to automate something with LLMs, you do not need MCP. Right now, it's just the new cool buzzword to throw around.
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ezekiel68 ◴[24 Jun 25 18:21 UTC] No.44369143[source]▶
AI coding tools have been improving/updating like craze over the past six months.

Honest question: what are some of the AI Dev tools (I prefer command line) that have leapt ahead recently, with good tool/function calling? Do you (or others) have a clear preference for Claude Code vs aider vs some other alternative? Or is the meta shifting toward the orchestrators like Taskmaster and Puppeteer?

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1. knowaveragejoe ◴[24 Jun 25 18:42 UTC] No.44369394[source]▶
This is a really nifty CLI tool that lets you fit an LLM into a shell environment. Check out examples like piping context into and out of the `llm` command.

https://github.com/simonw/llm