Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
by fragmede on Saturday June 28, 2025 @03:45PM
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I know we're all just soaked by a wave of hype right now but I think MCP will go the way of other "but it works" tech, like zip files, RSS and shell scripts.
Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
by baobun on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:42PM
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Remember when GraphQl was making REST obsolete? This rhymes.
Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
by overfeed on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:52PM
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> Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech
One that won't be supported by any of the big names except to suck data into their walled gardens and lock it up. We all know the playbook.
Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
by bigiain on Saturday June 28, 2025 @09:00PM
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> Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech. But I’m betting shoveling data at llm agents isn’t.
I'd bet that while "shoveling data at llm agents" might not be a fad, sometime fairly soon doing so for free while someone else's VC money picks up the planet destroying data center costs will stop being a thing. Imagine if every PHP or Ruby on Rails, or Python/Django site had started out and locked themselves into a free tier Oracle database, then one day Oracle's licensing lawyers started showing up to charge people for their WordPress blog.
Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech. But I’m betting shoveling data at llm agents isn’t. The benefits are too high for companies to allow vendors to lock the data away from them.