# MCP is dead. Long live the CLI

<https://ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp-is-dead-long-live-the-cli.html>

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- Saved: March 3, 2026 (2026-03-04T01:43:04Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Agentic-first capabilities thrive in the traditional world of Unix command line best practices. Non-blocking, good flags, and documentation. This is the reason behind my [mb - agent first micro.blog client](https://github.com/jthingelstad/mb).

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT342: Weekly Thing 342 / Claude, Otto, Elixir](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/342/), Briefly

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## Elsewhere

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