I’m Max, a product leader with an engineering background. I write about building useful software, working with AI, and the creative practice behind both.
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CLI > MCP
What's the point of MCP?
I wanted Claude to access my Slack. To make that happen, I had to find and install an MCP server, authorize it specifically for Claude, and give it a permanent chunk of my context window. The authentication keeps breaking. I haven't set it up for Codex. I can't easily use or debug the tool myself.
Meanwhile, Slack was already set up and working nicely in my CLI.