Everyone's Quitting MCP… Here's What They're Using Instead #shorts
"MCP sucks honestly." — Garry Tan, Y Combinator.
That one tweet kicked off the biggest shift in how we build AI agents in 2026. Perplexity's CTO followed up saying they're moving to APIs and CLI only. So what happened to the "USB-C for AI agents"?
Turns out, MCP loads every tool description into your context window before the user even types — GitHub's MCP alone burns 50,000 tokens. More context = more noise = worse model performance.
But is MCP really dead, or are we just bad at scaling it? Watch the full breakdown.
#MCP #CLI #AIAgents #LLMEngineering #DevTools
That one tweet kicked off the biggest shift in how we build AI agents in 2026. Perplexity's CTO followed up saying they're moving to APIs and CLI only. So what happened to the "USB-C for AI agents"?
Turns out, MCP loads every tool description into your context window before the user even types — GitHub's MCP alone burns 50,000 tokens. More context = more noise = worse model performance.
But is MCP really dead, or are we just bad at scaling it? Watch the full breakdown.
#MCP #CLI #AIAgents #LLMEngineering #DevTools
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