Comment by _fat_santa

Where I found MCP's really useful is integrating with "consumer AI" (chatgpt.com, claude.ai, etc).

I'm working on a sideproject called Rowbly[1]. It acts as a sharable data store where LLM's can dump research rather than keeping it in their memory or throwing it into a spreadsheet.

At first I thought "I don't need an MCP, I'll just expose a CLI" but that carries a pretty big limitation in that it only works with agents on your computer (Codex, Claude Code, Pi, etc). For the folks on here this is not an issue and is often times preferable but I'm also targeting the average LLM user that primarily interfaces with it via "consumer AI" and with those tools the stuff you can do is very very limited.

I still think MCP's have a long way to go maturity wise and hey maybe in a few years we will figure out a better way to do things but for now, if you want to interact with consumer AI apps, there's just no way around using them.

[1]: https://rowbly.com