MCP is dead?
Hacker News (AI keywords)·10 days ago·Opinion
Quandri measured MCP tool schemas in its Claude Code setup and found significant context overhead across Linear, Notion, Slack, and Postgres. The post argues MCP can be slower, less reliable, and harder to debug than direct CLI/API usage. It recommends CLI-first workflows and on-demand Skills, while noting MCP still fits services without CLIs, non-developer users, bidirectional communication, and guarded production database access.