Comment by simonw

Hah, I made that same point last December: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/#the-...

> For a while it also felt like MCP was a convenient answer for companies that were under pressure to have “an AI strategy” but didn’t really know how to do that.

I've since come back to MCPs, because I want to build my own agents without first having to solve the problem of effectively sandboxing Bash.