Mostly agree. Most MCP servers I've tried add more context overhead than value. A couple genuinely earn their keep though — firecrawl and context7 are hard to replicate with bash alone. OpenCode's approach of making MCP entirely optional is the right default.
Well said. I have been pointing out what was first taught to me by a consultant-turned-professor years ago: every few years, they just re-invent the same solutions with new names.
Most AI advancements are just the rediscovery of lessons learned decades ago during the birth of multi-threading, networking, and the like.
What do you think about this:
https://www.orangecountyai.com/blog/mcp2cli-one-cli-for-every-api-zero-wasted-tokens
Mostly agree. Most MCP servers I've tried add more context overhead than value. A couple genuinely earn their keep though — firecrawl and context7 are hard to replicate with bash alone. OpenCode's approach of making MCP entirely optional is the right default.
Well said. I have been pointing out what was first taught to me by a consultant-turned-professor years ago: every few years, they just re-invent the same solutions with new names.
Most AI advancements are just the rediscovery of lessons learned decades ago during the birth of multi-threading, networking, and the like.