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Re:The "S" in MCP Stands for Security by fsndz on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:21PM (#43604148)
So why are people so excited about MCP, and so suddenly? I think you know the answer by now: hype. Mostly hype, with a bit of the classic fascination among software engineers for architecture. You just say Model Context Protocol, server, client, and software engineers get excited because it’s a new approach — it sounds fancy, it sounds serious. https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
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Re:The "S" in MCP Stands for Security by ryoshu on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:42PM (#43604311)
“For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong.”—HL Mencken
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Re:The "S" in MCP Stands for Security by fsndz on Sunday April 06, 2025 @07:35PM (#43605942)
this is top notch commentary
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Re:The "S" in MCP Stands for Security by kledru on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:53PM (#43604873)
Because it’s accessible, useful, and interesting. MCP showed up at the right time, in the right form—it was easy for developers to adopt and actually helped solve real problems. Now, a lot of people know they want something like this in their toolbox. Whether it’s MCP or something else doesn’t matter that much—‘MCP’ is really just shorthand for a new class of tooling AND feels almost consumer-grade in its usability.
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