Take: APIs, CLIs, and MCP Are Best Understood as Cost Optimization Mechanisms
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-28
The author offers a framing: APIs, CLIs, and MCP are best understood as cost optimization mechanisms — especially as everything increasingly gets a computer interface whether it likes it or not, these standardized interfaces drive down the marginal cost of human-machine and machine-machine interaction.
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