Nolan LawsonMar 2

"MCP is dead. Long live the CLI" by Eric Holmes https://ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp-is-dead-long-live-the-cli.html

I never understood the mania around MCP – it always seemed like a way-too-complex solution to the problem. Maybe we will eventually just land on skills and CLIs (or maybe just CLIs!).

MCP is dead. Long live the CLI

Show threadNolan LawsonMar 2
Ultimately if you have a list of CLIs, and if each of those CLIs supports `--help`, then… do you even need the concept of a "skill"?
Show threadJed Schmidt
@nolan indeed, smelled a lot like SOAP.
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