Very good points, but, I think this blog is pretty focussed on the developer use case for LLMs. It makes a lot more sense in chat style interfaces for connecting to non-dev tools or services with non technical users, if anything just from a UX perspective.

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quectophoton an hour ago | parent [-]

Thank you, I was going to say something like this. I've been reading all the comments here and thinking, "do ChatGPT/LeChat/etc even allow running CLIs from their web or mobile interfaces?".

	▲	jngiam1 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. and even if so, how are you going to safe guard tool access? Imagine your favorite email provider has a CLI for reading and sending email - you're cool with the agent reading, but not sending. What are you going to do? Make 2 API keys? Make N API keys for each possible tool configuration you care about? MCPs make this problem simple and easy to solve. CLIs don't. I don't think OpenClaw will last that long without security solved well - and MCPs seem to be obvious solution, but actively rejected by that community.