alt Hacker NewsAt that point you would add a `your-service-cli list-customers --order-by=spent` command, which would also be useful to humans and scripts, as opposed to an MCP tool call, which is only ergonomic to models.
At that point you would add a `your-service-cli list-customers --order-by=spent` command, which would also be useful to humans and scripts, as opposed to an MCP tool call, which is only ergonomic to models.
Right we can quibble about the wire protocol but the point remains that the arbitrary REPL becomes suboptimal as a solution when there’s not a deterministic endpoint. So ‘scripting’ is not really what we are looking for; we just want the final data output and scripting is fine when it’s a one off