Why CLIs Beat MCP for AI Agents — And How to Build Your Own CLI Army.

Six words. Thats what Peter Steinberger - the guy behind OpenClaw, 190,000 GitHub stars, freshly recruited by Sam Altman - posted on X last month. And my immediate reaction was to screenshot it and send it to three de friends with “ TOLD YOU SO ” in all caps. I’ve been building on Ubuntu for years. Every tool I use daily is a CLI. Supabase CLI, Vercel CLI, Docker, git, n8n - my entire stack runs from a terminal. When MCP servers started trending last year, I tried a few. They worked.