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Simon Last: belief

15 Apr 2026 Latent Space Notion’s Token Town: 5 Rebuilds, 100+ Tools, MCP vs CLIs and the Software Factory Future — Simon Last & Sarah Sachs of Notion

“I think there’s, there’s definitely a lot of use cases where, where you don’t want like a full coding agent with a compute run time.”

— Simon Last

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Simon Last
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belief
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15 Apr 2026
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Latent Space

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…your success give it a way to like, like filter to source the tools. So yeah, I would say like broadly speaking, I’m really bullish on cli. I’m still bullish on CPS and in a certain environment. I think in, in particular, CP is really great for when you want sort of like a narrow, lightweight agent. I think there’s, there’s definitely a lot of use cases where, where you don’t want like a full coding agent with a compute run time. And also you want it to be like more tightly permissioned. MCP inherently has a really strong permission model, like all you can do is call the tools. A CLI is a little bit murkier. It’s like, can I access the, if PI token are you, like, properly sort of like re-encrypt the token so it can’t like exfiltrate it, it introduce a lot of like, like new issues, which are. Real and hard to solve. And MCP is just like the dumb simple thing that works and it that it’s pretty good. I’ll add two more perspectives, not from it working well for Notion, but how notion like commits to both platforms. Notion is dedicated to being the best system of record for where people do their enterprise work. So we will always support our MCP and so far as other people are using cps, right? So regardless of our perspective, we’ve put a lot of effort into our MCP and we have a fantastic team that we’re building, um, to do more there. And the second thing I’ll say, I think, um, we all think a lot, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about making sure there’s a value alignment and pricing, um, with capability.…

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