MCP Is Dead; Long Live MCP

The article argues that while social media hype has shifted from MCP to CLIs, much of the criticism conflates local MCP over stdio with server MCP over HTTP and ignores MCP's prompts, resources, auth, and telemetry capabilities. The author contends that CLIs face the same context problems as MCP but without structure, and that for enterprise and organizational use cases, MCP remains the present and future despite influencer-driven hype cycles.