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Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System by TimTheTinker on Saturday June 28, 2025 @12:27PM (#44405926)
MCP is supposed to grant "agency" (whatever that means), not merely expose curated data and functionality.

In practice, the distinction is little more than the difference between different HTTP verbs, but I think there is a real difference in what people are intending to enable when creating an MCP server vs. standard APIs.

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Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System by adregan on Saturday June 28, 2025 @12:34PM (#44406002)
Might be another reflection of McLuhan‘s “the medium is the message” in that APIs are built with the intended interface in mind.

To this point, GUIs; going forward, AI agents. While the intention rhymes, the meaning of these systems diverge.

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