GoKawiilMCP is Dead; Long Live MCP!
Mar 14, 2026
Summary
There is currently a social media and industry zeitgeist dialed-in on CLIs…just as there was a moment for MCP but just a few short months ago
While it is true that there are token savings to be had by using a CLI, many folks have not considered how agents using custom CLIs run into the same context problem as MCP, except now without structure and many other sacrifices
In much of the discourse, there is a lack of distinction between local MCP over stdio versus server MCP over HTTP; the latter is a very different use case
versus server MCP over HTTP; the latter is a very different use case Many folks are also only familiar with MCP tools, but overlook MCP prompts and resources as an important org- and enterprise-level mechanism for moving from cowboy vibe-coding to organizationally aligned agentic engineering.
The importance of MCP auth is also commonly misunderstood as is the role and importance of telemetry in understanding org-wide tool use
For enterprise and org-level use cases, MCP is the present and future and teams need to be able to cut through the hype of the moment.
The Influencer Driven Hype Cycle
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