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5 Reasons Your MCP Server Is Slower Than a CLI (and When to Just Delete It)

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There are two ways to let an agent use your product. A) Ship an MCP server. Define tools, describe them, run a process, the model calls them. B) Ship a CLI. yourtool do-the-thing --json . The agent runs it in a shell like a human would. For about a year the answer was obviously A. In 2026 a lot of…

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    5 Reasons Your MCP Server Is Slower Than a CLI (and When to Just Delete It)

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