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Re:Introducing The Model Context Protocol by ramoz on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @11:10AM (#42257137)
Seems more accurate to state this reshapes the NxM problem rather than solving it.
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Re:Introducing The Model Context Protocol by mayank_agarwal on Thursday November 28, 2024 @06:02AM (#42264342)
Yeah even I don't understand how it exactly solves the NXM problem (which translates to having M different prompts for N different llms. corerct me if I'm wrong please)
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Re:Introducing The Model Context Protocol by ramoz on Friday November 29, 2024 @08:26AM (#42273692)
N (LLM clients/vendors) x M (tools/tool suppliers).

The N×M problem may simply be moved rather than solved:

  - Instead of N×M direct integrations
  - We now have N MCP client implementations
  - M MCP server implementations
This feels similar to SOAP but might be more of a lower level protocol similar to HTTP itself. Hard to tell with the implementation examples being pretty subjective programs in python.
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