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MCP vs REST: The Bill Comes in Tokens
2026-08-0514
GitHub's MCP server spends roughly 17,600 tokens on tool descriptions, with the full toolset on, before you ask anything. What that buys, when REST is still better, and the twelve articles a "success" response quietly truncated.
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MCP vs REST API: Fifty Years of the Same Question
2026-08-0519
MCP did not replace REST. In July 2026 it became stateless, which is the constraint REST has been built on since 2000. This is how we got here.
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