I'm new to "MCP"... It says here that even IDE plug into this MCP server [1], as in you don't edit files directly anymore but go through a client/server?
It wasn't bad enough that we now run servers locally to constantly compile code and tell us via json we made a typo... Soon we won't even be editing files on a disk, but accessing them through a json-rpc client/server? Am I getting this wrong?
I think you are getting it wrong. Some IDEs like Cursor and VS Code extensions like Cline support MCP servers, meaning you can give them access to your databases, Jira tickets, Notion notes, Slack messages, etc.
It wasn't bad enough that we now run servers locally to constantly compile code and tell us via json we made a typo... Soon we won't even be editing files on a disk, but accessing them through a json-rpc client/server? Am I getting this wrong?
[1] https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction