if bug { dont }

/s

Which in normal times, are something taken for granted, but once it does happen, the edge case collapse the entire system.

edit: the earlier language is not exact, the scenario is an exponential drop of value that results in exponential drop in miner willing to mine until this discrepancy can be resolved. i.e. the system is not protected against extreme volatility (e.g. -99% over a block cycle)

No, a CLI with RPC can do exactly that, just smaller. It goes lower in the exact same stack without the fluff.

How about driving the same truck without that half ton of water?

MCP is just wrapper on top of API layer that RCP to a worker/daemon. That API layer itself can be the CLI. You get no more context usage, and no extra security impact, because fundamentally the model are the same, just without the fluff.

You are probably thinking of CLI as in "oh I must pass everything and it is stateless", only some need to be like that.

MCP is just a wrapper on top, there are no inherent differences other than complexity on top.

How do you think MCP work under the hood?

The whole concept of PR is that you want additional looks on the code, and multiple agents working adversarially on PRs with philosophical rules are really nice.

CLI is the same API in more concise format. At minimum, the same amount of context overhead exist for MCP, but most of the time more because the boxes have size.

CLI can be secure, AWS CLI is doing just fine. You can also play simple tricks to hide secret in a daemon or run them remotely, and all of them are still smaller than a MCP.

Everything will go to the simplest and most convenient, often both, despite the resistance of the complexity lovers.

Sorry MCP, you are not as simple as CLI/skill/combination, and no, you are not more secure just because you are buried under 3 level of spaghetti. There are no reason for you to exist, just like Copilot. I don't just wish, but know you'll go into obscurity like IE6.

Everything is dependent on "agents", but there are either barely any scaffold around them or it is full speghetti, at least it's hard to find one that's well constructed.

For instance, humans zoom around in cars, these cars don't spontaneously combust (most of the time), have seatbelts and airbags, and don't need engine oil replacement every 1 mile. Humans are amazing, the cars are also relatively solidly engineered (at least the ones we drive around today).

The agent product that we have today are decidedly NOT that. Maybe for a single week openclaw was it - and then it decided to add a trawler and a fishhook to the car along with 1000 other addition because why not? And that has been true for almost every one of the LLM/AI product I have seen.

It's best at summarizing/processing modest amount of information quickly. But given more, its usefulness drastically decreases. This demand toolings that divide the amount of information and flow.