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Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

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Re: Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

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Post by storystarling »

drdrey wrote: post #6

this seems like what MCPs should have been from the beginning. If you think MCPs are better, can you explain why?

I suspect the main trade-off is structured data versus text parsing. While CLIs are composable, relying on stdout is brittle for anything complex. MCP enforces a schema (types), which acts as a contract between the model and your backend. If you're building reliable pipelines rather than just one-off scripts, that structure is pretty critical to avoid parsing errors downstream.

Re: Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

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Post by anonymous908213 »

dhruv3006 wrote: post #10

Building an API client : https://voiden.md/ The points made in the article can be included in the design choices.

It has been fascinating watching the cargo cult fall progressively deeper into AI psychosis. The amount of fanfare and marketing around different ways of writing text files is impressive. Still no amazing real-world software that anybody actually uses made by vibe coding, but boy are there options for writing .md files. Just a couple of years ago, I never could've imagined how far .md-writing technology would've advanced. The future is now.

Re: Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

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Post by turlockmike »

I built a tool specifically for dealing with remote mcp servers via the cli. No config files needed. FUSE (and Bash) is all we need. This way we can still get benefits of discoverability of mcp endpoints, but can use cli tools and bash to do things easier.

https://github.com/turlockmike/murl

Re: Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

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Post by warkdarrior »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #12
dhruv3006 wrote: post #10

Building an API client : https://voiden.md/ The points made in the article can be included in the design choices.

It has been fascinating watching the cargo cult fall progressively deeper into AI psychosis. The amount of fanfare and marketing around different ways of writing text files is impressive. Still no amazing real-world software that anybody actually uses made by vibe coding, but boy are there options for writing .md files. Just a couple of years ago, I never could've imagined how far .md-writing technology would've adva…

You can make the same argument about the ever-growing list of programming languages, which are just weirdly formatted lists of computer commands.

Re: Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

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Post by MathMonkeyMan »

warkdarrior wrote: post #14
anonymous908213 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has been fascinating watching the cargo cult fall progressively deeper into AI psychosis. The amount of fanfare and marketing around different ways of writing text files is impressive. Still no amazing real-world software that anybody actually uses made by vibe coding, but boy are there options for writing .md files. Just a couple of years ago, I never could've imagined how far .md-writing technology would've adva…

You can make the same argument about the ever-growing list of programming languages, which are just weirdly formatted lists of computer commands.

which are equivalent to lists of computer commands. A compiler is a hell of a formatter.
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