MCP in IDEs vs Remote Agent Hosts: Deployment and UX Trade-offs (ANSWERED)
TL;DR — Quick Answer
Local IDE MCP favors stdio, user OAuth, and fast iteration with laptop sandbox limits; remote hosts favor centralized gateway auth, shared servers, stronger isolation, and consistent tool catalogs — at the cost of latency and offline fragility.
The Interview Question
Compare running MCP servers locally in an IDE versus remote MCP hosted for cloud agents. What changes in auth, latency, sandboxing, and developer workflow?
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