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I run the team at OpenAI that's responsible for the ChatGPT App Store, Codex plugins, and all things MCP.

The thing that all these "MCP is dead" posts are missing is that whether or not MCP is used as a transport protocol is actually completely irrelevant.

The reason MCP isn't dead is because practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server. I know this because we interact with all of them. Most of these companies don't have a CLI. Many of these companies don't even have an external API! And yet, they're all building MCP servers.

And that's why MCP is not only not dead, but more important than ever.

Maybe we will turn every MCP server into a CLI under the hood. Maybe we'll use code mode. Maybe we'll implement tool search.

All of those are just implementation details to the much more important point: our AI agents are getting access to services they otherwise would never have had access to.[0] That's what matters.

So, is MCP dead as a direct communication layer for models to speak to? Maybe, maybe not. Is MCP dead as a protocol? Hell no, couldn't be further from the truth.

[0]: Although I will say the Codex app's computer & browser use features have made this statement a lot weaker than it used to be. If you haven't tried them yet—they're mindblowing.

Initial Show HN four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629429

Congrats to the Statsig team!

Initial Show HN four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629429

Congrats to the Statsig team!

It's interesting that he signs off with "So long, and thanks for all the fish," which is a quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

Just before the Vogons demolish Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the dolphins, knowing what’s coming, leave the planet and their farewell message is “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

I wonder what he's implying about GitHub…

I've been doing this for years with my meetings and I wish Google Calendar had it built in. I have to keep manually adjusting start times and it's a pain.

Oh man, I got excited to use this with our kids, but then saw that it requires a " mobile device management (MDM) solution and Managed Apple IDs." I hope they consider the family use case in the future.

Stellate CEO here; let me know if you have any questions about this!

Patrick Collison posted a summary of the results on Twitter in case you don't want to read the whole report: https://x.com/patrickc/status/1833127988512305352

TL;DR: "Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words."

Love seeing more innovation in this space! I know Oleg (former Webflow eng) has been working on https://webstudio.is for a while; also open-source and visual editing for React apps. How does Onlook compare?

I was thinking about changing my personal website's font to a monospaced one.

Anybody know which ones are particularly good for long-form text readability?

Bonus points if it's on Google Fonts.

I've been having a lot of fun building a digital garden for my WIP notes into my personal website: https://mxstbr.com/notes/digital-garden

My quests (goals) with this digital garden are:

1. Publish more than I did when I just had space for essays, which hopefully leads to…

2. Getting more input from people on my ideas

3. And have fun futzing with my digital garden technically

So far, so good!

I recently saw this related article[0] on the HN frontpage and I've already been applying it.

TL;DR: To build more quickly, do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect.

[0]: with me: https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/