Discussion Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC? Some things I don't understand with MCP vs. CLIPermissions: you can already scope CLI command permissionsDiscoverability: you can already discover commands/arguments with a help flagWhy add a whole other process to the computer?Do MCP proponents imagine in the future every program on your PC has another MCP process also running?It seems like adding extra complexity/moving parts for not much benefit. 7 points ex-aws-dude 6 months ago 4 comments
Permissions: you can already scope CLI command permissions
Discoverability: you can already discover commands/arguments with a help flag
Why add a whole other process to the computer?
Do MCP proponents imagine in the future every program on your PC has another MCP process also running?
It seems like adding extra complexity/moving parts for not much benefit.