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		--help on your CLI is all you need for LLM context until you don't (ghuntley.com)
		3 points by ghuntley 19 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

chickencoder 19 days ago [–]

I think MCP will outlive CLIs though as we have the cloud computing revolution for agents. For a cloud agent, an MCP is basically the same as a CLI.

--help is just tool descriptions

MCP will also win because it has a standard auth story.

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