Debate over frontend-less, native MCP-tool-driven agent interfaces
A Hacker News thread discusses whether traditional frontends are becoming obsolete in favor of native MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools accessed through messaging-based AI agents, and questions how token-intensive running multiple MCP connections simultaneously is. It is a speculative architecture discussion rather than a reported user pain point.
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