MCP is dead?
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novelty 8
actionability 3
community 9
strategic 6
personal 9
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Summary
MCP (Model Context Protocol) introduces context bloat and latency: Linear's 42 tool definitions consume 12,800 tokens, and MCP is 3-9x slower than direct API calls, using 65x more tokens than CLI for a Linear issue lookup. Claude Code's Tool Search with Deferred Loading reduces context usage by 85%+, but architectural overhead remains. The author's team replaced MCP servers with Skills wrapping CLIs, freeing 21K tokens and eliminating init failures, arguing CLI-first and on-demand tool loading are more efficient for most developer workflows.