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Public story · 2026-03-16 · source-backed
Apideck publishes analysis showing MCP servers consume excessive context and proposes a CLI-based alternative that dramatically reduces per-tool-call overhead. 88 points and 83 comments with near 1:1 ratio indicates sustained technical debate. First concrete alternative architecture targeting MCP's context cost. Apideck
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