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Re:A Critical Look at MCP by FridgeSeal on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:23PM (#43950762)
Hey there, expecting basically literacy or comprehension out of a sub-industry seemingly dedicated to minimising human understanding and involvement is bridge too far.

Clearly if these things are problems, AI will simply solve them, duhhh.

/s

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Re:A Critical Look at MCP by brabel on Sunday May 11, 2025 @03:16AM (#43952019)
You joke, but with the right prompt, I am almost certain that an LLM would've written a better spec than MCP. Like others said, there are many protocols that can be used as inspiration for what MCP tries to achieve, so LLMs should "know" how it should be done... which is definitely NOT by using SSE and a freaking separate "write" endpoint.
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Re:A Critical Look at MCP by ethbr1 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @10:11AM (#43953952)
> with the right prompt

That's LLM in a nutshell though. A naive prompt + taking the first output = high probability of garbage. A thoughtful prompt informed by subject matter expertise + evaluating, considering, and iterating on output = better than human-alone.

But the pre-knowledge and creative curation are key components of reliable utility.

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