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'Ask HN: Who Is Using MCP in Production?' Splits Into Non-Technical Users vs a Growing Just-Use-the-CLI Camp
The thread drew 116 comments and a consistent split. Production users cite Tredict serving sports analytics across ChatGPT and Claude, Adidas running stdio and remote MCP in autonomous workflows, an in-house MCP for log and metric search across five legacy systems, and voice agents pointing Eleven Labs, Vapi or Pipecat at one custom server to inherit the tool list. The counter-camp reports MCP consuming up to 32% more tokens than direct CLI use and argues agents have gotten good enough at raw APIs and CLIs to make the layer unnecessary, with the surviving niches being non-technical end users, OAuth flows, browser-based agents, and fine-grained access control.
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