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the maintenance burden is the real MCP killer nobody talks about.

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for dev tooling? just write better CLIs.

You realize those custom CLIs you're writing will now need to be maintained too, right?

fair point, but there's a difference between maintaining a CLI you own vs depending on a third party to maintain a wrapper around an API you could call directly. not to mention the mcp protocol is fairly nascent whereas CLIs are much more battle-tested

Which is why you should use official MCP servers, and plenty of products do offer an official MCP server.

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