MCP is dead | Quandri Engineering

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This article argues that MCP often wastes context, adds latency, and creates reliability issues when connected to external tools. It compares MCP with CLI and API-based workflows and shows that the CLI-first approach uses far fewer tokens. The author recommends Skills that wrap existing CLI commands as a lighter alternative for many developer tasks. The piece also notes that MCP still makes sense in some database and uniform-auth scenarios, but it feels overengineered for most workflows. Quandri says it now uses MCP, CLI, and psql side by side, and it has replaced some MCP servers with Skills to reduce friction.

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