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I built MCP tooling two weeks after the protocol was announced, and today almost every tool I hand my agents is a CLI instead. This isn't the usual polarized take: CLIs win on tokens, priors, and self-documentation, but MCP keeps one property nothing else has: state.
How I turned a ChatGPT subscription into a set-and-forget coding agent on a real Linux machine, and how it hands work back and forth with the agents on my laptop.