Not especially. The flow is natural, if you will.

- Me: "Do this"

- LLM: "Ok, let me try do this.. nope something's off. Let me try another way".

Occasionally, I do have to abandon a run but in general it seems successful.

You're talking about using a Chat AI as an end user.

I wonder why there is a protocol at all for end users since you are using natural language as the ACTUAL protocol.

Is MCP not for developers?

I thought of it as like a GraphQL in that it takes over the network comms layer but for LLM queries instead of payloads.

Idk

Not sure I'm following. I was under the impression that MCP defines a way for LLMs to reach into the "real world". The MCP servers I've played with basically say "I'm an MCP tool, and I can fetch a Jira ticket". The LLM then has the option to call the tool.

Check this out https://smithery.ai/

They banned my other account just now, but I'm the same guy:

I see - fundamental misunderstanding on my part about what it is.

It's a chat thing - for the end user. The word "protocol" is very confusing here.

Makes sense why it didn't make sense, if that makes sense.

Yeah I get that there is a consumer side, I was mainly referring to the technical spec - the "protocol"

I invented something like this months ago to pull up a calculator, browser, etc. in the chat UI (try it chat.blacksand.cloud)

If you prompt what is "2 + 2" it will respond with "4" and render a calculator tool in the chat. It knows what tool to render based on this system.

I guess that is what they are formalizing.

I get it now, cool.