{
  "id": 8988944,
  "title": "MCP was always a bad idea?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea-8988944",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-20T20:24:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/20/hn-49779718/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc) with unfettered internet access - just let it call APIs directly. If you want to operate something that's less YOLO than that, you'll find…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News Best",
        "title": "MCP was always a bad idea?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea",
        "published": "2026-09-20T19:44:40.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}