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Re:MCP is eating the world–and it's here to stay by nunodonato on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:24AM (#44375238)
I have a tool that builds HTTP requests. LLMs can use that just fine, IF they know the API spec they should connect to. And that is the problem. If you are then required to pass the specs of dozens of APIs, you are polluting the context with too much useless info. MCP simplifies that
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Re:MCP is eating the world–and it's here to stay by simiones on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:49AM (#44375401)
You also need an MCP schema to understand what the MCP server can actually do, there is no free lunch here.
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Re:MCP is eating the world–and it's here to stay by nunodonato on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @07:44AM (#44376158)
yes, but in terms of token size its WAY cheaper for the AI to handle that than an OpenAPI spec
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Re:MCP is eating the world–and it's here to stay by miningape on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @10:26AM (#44377711)
Isn't this more a limitation of the OpenAPI spec? Something like GraphQL would probably work much better
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