MCP vs. simple scripts: when to actually use MCP in production
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Every week someone posts a new "MCP server" that's really just a single API call wrapped in boilerplate. Meanwhile, teams that actually need MCP — multiple agents, multiple tools, shared auth, dynamic discovery — sometimes skip it and end up hand-rolling a worse version of it inside their agent loo…
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- 2026-09-24 20:48 · DEV Community — AI
MCP vs. simple scripts: when to actually use MCP in production