What Simon Willison thinks about MCP

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1. 31 Dec 2025

   Our readingMCP 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.

   coding agents

   Their wordsThe 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.

   ↗2025: The year in LLMssimonwillison.net