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Notion’s Token Town: 5 Rebuilds, 100+ Tools, MCP vs CLIs and the Software Factory Future — Simon Last & Sarah Sachs of Notion

aired Apr 15, 2026 · 77.0m
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Summary

Broadly speaking, I'm really bullish on CLIs. I think it'd be really great for when you want, like, a narrow lightweight agent.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, yeah, including: I'm still bullish on MCPs in a certain environment.

Key takeaways
  1. 01I think it'd be really great for when you want, like, a narrow lightweight agent
  2. 02I think there's definitely a lot of use cases where you don't want, like, a full coding agent with the compute runtime
  3. 03MCP inherently has a really strong permission model
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AI engineers building production copilots