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[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API
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Daring Fireball
It doesn't replace your REST API; it wraps it in a layer that AI agents can actually work with.
A REST API doesn't tell you what it can do, you have to know that going in.
A REST API doesn't tell you what it can do, you have to know that going in.
It exposes high-level MCP tools like repository/list as primitives that any AI agent can discover and call through the standard MCP protocol.
The problem is that a good REST API and a good MCP server have fundamentally different design goals.