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Eric Holmes
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I build and break things, mostly in Go and Ruby. Infrastructure Engineering @chime
US Katılım Ocak 2009
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@ankrgyl Datadog. They have an MCP and a relativley new CLI (pup). CLI is objectively better because of composition (you really can’t analyze large data effictively without it).
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people who feel strongly on mcp vs. cli
i am doing some research here. are there any particular services that have an mcp and cli (both) and you feel like one is way better than the other?
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100% this
Guillermo Rauch@rauchg
This is a very well implemented CLI. It's so thorough. It dynamically registers commands, it's designed for a browser-wielding agent to automate the setup steps, it can start a MCP daemon… The author wrote a really cool article: justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-…
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今天 HackerNews 上有一篇很有趣的文章
《MCP 已死，CLI 永生》
它断言 MCP 已经在走向衰亡。
理由是：大模型并不需要特殊的协议
最好的工具总是既能为人所用，又能被机器高效处理的。
而 CLI 就是那一个很好的工具。
如果现在的轮子就很好用，我们并不需要再次发明轮子
ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp…
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You'll know we've reached AGI when Anthropic's software stops being absolute garbage.
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@badlogicgames I thought so. But my day to day still involves people pushing for building MCP replacements for CLI’s that already do the job. So I guess not 🤷
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oh no, orange site is doing this again. didn't we beat this old horse to death already?
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This is another great article about the importance of the CLI.
I like the fact that MCPs make sense only if there isn't a CLI equivalent for a service.
Marco Franzon@mfranz_on
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Este artículo me gustó un montón, y es una perspectiva que me llamó la atención
"MCP está muerto, larga vida al CLI"
El autor considera q no necesitamos un protocolo para la AI, sino usar los CLIs d siempre y combinarlos entre sí en lugar d crear algo q solo una AI puede usar
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The best thing about this next phase of AI is how it's reviving early Unix/Web values: small, sharp, composable CLI tools and plain text. It’s the environment agents thrive in.
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Wasn't super happy with the RSS landscape for my @openclaw, so I made a thing. Enjoy github.com/ejholmes/kiter…
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Eric Holmes retweetledi
Almost any software that does not work well with AI agents, is not going to make it.
I’m using a lot of tools with tons of UI, all of it will either have to be rewritten to be agent friendly, or it’s dead. For a lot of it too, slapping some MCP on it won’t be enough either.
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Eric Holmes retweetledi
If there’s one contribution to the field of computer science we owe to @steipete, it’s the return of the CLI and the fall of MCP
Robert Cincotta@drrobcincotta
I have been testing the new Obsidian CLI with Claude Code on my research vault (4,663 files, 16 GB)... I know too many notes!! Early results are significant. Its going to change the way in which Claude Code can interact with Obsidian The way I see it, there are three ways Claude can connect to your vault: Filesystem (MCP or bash) reads/writes markdown files. Covers maybe 40% of what Obsidian actually knows. No awareness of backlinks, tags, properties, or the graph. To search content, it has to open every file individually. REST API MCP — talks to Obsidian via plugin. Gets you to about 55%. Better search, some metadata. But fragile setup and limited. Obsidian CLI ...Yay @obsdmd and @kepano !! it queries Obsidian's actual indexes. This would be about 85% of Obsidian's capabilities. The missing 15% is purely visual the canvas layout, graph view rendering, live preview. Everything else is there: search, backlinks, orphan detection, properties, tags with hierarchy and counts. The speed difference is real: Finding orphan notes: bash grep 15.6s vs CLI 0.26s (54× faster) Searching vault: bash grep 1.95s vs CLI 0.32s (6× faster) Token cost for orphan detection via MCP: about 7 million tokens. Via CLI: 100 tokens. That's 70,000× cheaper. The CLI uses Obsidian's pre-built search index the same thing that makes Obsidian's own search instant. Grep scans every file from scratch every time. The catch: right now this only works via Claude Code (which can run CLI commands through bash). Claude Desktop and claude.ai can't access it directly. There is an early CLI MCP server (obsidian-ts-mcp) that would bridge this gap but I haven't tested it yet. (I think that if you ask nicely Claude Code could create a version for you!) I'm using this as part of a research assistant stack connecting Claude to Obsidian, Zotero, PubMed and more. Posts on each piece coming.
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Hey @DatadogOps. RSS feed for your blog seems to create entries when you tag an article. Been like this for weeks:
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Surprised this isn't more common. Internal data security is a joke at most tech companies.
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Really dissatisfied with @apple hardware these days. Second Macbook Air in a year where the screen won't turn on. Maybe this is the year of the Linux desktop (for me).
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e.g. can't have a workflow that handles github deployments, and another one that creates them (e.g. on push, or on issue label). The deployments created through Actions won't trigger the deployment handler. Shame.
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I get why GitHub would do this, but this is pretty limiting for GitHub Actions: #event-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">help.github.com/en/articles/ev…
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I can now login to GitHub with TouchID on my Macbook when using Chrome. The future is bright. github.blog/2019-08-21-git…
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Hey #YangGang! I just stepped off the stage in Detroit, and wow, what a fantastic night. I hope I made you proud, I think the Yang Gang is about to get a lot bigger. If you can, please make a donation tonight, and then head out to celebrate this win! yang2020.com/donate
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