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MCP may turn out to be a one-year wonder, because coding agents that can run arbitrary shell commands make Bash the best general-purpose tool interface.

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MCP The Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data.

What do coding agents change about software work?under our view: What an agent should be given to work with is still being argued out

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  1. Simon Willison Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
    The reason I think MCP may be a one-year wonder is the stratospheric growth of coding agents. It appears that the best possible tool for any situation is Bash—if your agent can run arbitrary shell commands, it can do anything that can be done by typing commands into a terminal.

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