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daemonologisttoday at 3:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Obvious example is a corporate chatbot (if it's using tools, probably for internal use). Non-technical users might be accessing it from a phone or locked-down corporate device, and you probably don't want to run a CLI in a sandbox somewhere for every session, so you'd like the LLM to interface with some kind of API instead.

Although, I think MCP is not really appropriate for this either. (And frankly I don't think chatbots make for good UX, but management sure likes them.)


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nostreboredtoday at 3:59 AM

Why are they not calling APIs directly with strictly defined inputs and outputs like every other internal application?

The story for MCP just makes no sense, especially in an enterprise.

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friendzistoday at 8:07 AM

> and you probably don't want to run a CLI in a sandbox somewhere for every session

You absolutely DO want to run everything related to LLMs in a sandbox, that's basic hygiene

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