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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by aledalgrande on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:08AM (#43543039)
> Unless these tools can be run locally independent of a service provider, we're just trading one boss for another.

Not only that, we have to be careful about all the integrations being built around it. Thankfully the MCP standard is becoming mainstream (used by Anthropic, OpenAI and next could be Google) and it's an open standard, even if started by Anthropic so we won't have e.g. Anthropic specific integrations.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:00AM (#43544439)
See my replies to other comments parallel to yours. But in short: MCP doesn't help us anymore than cURL lets you replicate Zapier in a shell script - the bad future is that, like with APIs, service providers get to differentiate between humans and AI user-agents, and restrict the latter to endpoints governed by B2B contracts.
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