The reason I think MCP may be a one-year wonder is the stratospheric growth of coding agents. It appears that the best possible tool for any situation is Bash—if your agent can run arbitrary shell commands, it can do anything that can be done by typing commands into a terminal. Since leaning heavily into Claude Code and friends myself I’ve hardly used MCP at all—I’ve found CLI tools like gh and libraries like Playwright to be better alternatives to the GitHub and Playwright MCPs.
Author thinks MCP may be a temporary phenomenon as a protocol, mostly bc cli tools like Claude code don't need it. The last sentence, that cli tools already exist that are better than the corresponding MCP servers for those tools, goes back to why vibecode/AI-the-things if there's perfectly good automation already around? I think that MCP may still be useful locally for personal tools though. It helps structure what you want your AI to do.