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I hooked up claude code to Jira and Figma. This is more a condemnation of Jira than anything, but being able to interact with it in natural language in the terminal is a huge relief. Sadly, it's still limited in some ways. If it's available, it makes things a tiny bit easier than interfacing directly via api, so it's a nice to have.

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I did this as well. I found that it was really inefficient because if I was doing anything with a significant amount of text, it has to shuttle all of that through the model to the MCP invocation. It was way better to work with temporary files and pipe them around CLI tools once you’re happy with the contents. E.g. developing a user story and creating the Jira issue.

> "it makes things a tiny bit easier than interfacing directly via api"

By what metric? I would expect that a thin API client (with readable code) is generally going to out-perform a tool-surface which you don't have the ability to manage/edit.

If you don’t use the MCP Claude will default to taking screenshots of figma designs.

This is what I don't get often when people say "ai will be the ui". Like pressing a button to get an action done for me will always be quicker than asking an LLM to do an action and then waiting for it to understand and do that action. Why will I not prefer to just press the button?

I run a lot of services to track my life and work and theoritically I could hook up their apis or mcp if supported to a harness and pretend like "oh its a talking computer that can do whatever i ask" but in reality, I can go through the native ui of those services esp with things like hot-keys for a faster and more ergonomic experience than talking to a jarvis and having to recorrect it if its wrong

When you are holding a pet, or washing the dishes?

not OP, but then I'm washing the dishes and don't need to do anything else.

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