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MixedClaude · 4 Sep 2026

MCPs are diminishing in value a bit, because AI Agents are getting smarter about using API/CLIs

5ersi on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?”

Helped: In-house MCP combining logs/metrics across five legacy systems

Got in the way: Using MCP for GitHub when gh CLI was already set up

MCPs are diminishing in value a bit, because AI Agents are getting smarter about using API/CLIs. For example, I use gh cli via Claude instead of their MCP, because I already had cli setup, so no need to use MCP. …