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Re: New MCP Roadmap

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Post by chrisweekly » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

DarmokTanagra wrote: post #170

chrisweekly wrote: post #31

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> "only use things that have been around for at least three years" Yikes. I can understand the desire to mitigate churn, but following this advice would be career suicide. Trying new things is essential.

Trying is not the same thing as advocating for and implementing products features using unproven tech. Ive been in this industry nearly 40 years and I have seen many many people push new tech and later fail to deliver and suffer the consequences. Experiment where it doesnt matter, everywhere else boring and old is a virtue.

I hear you. "Choose boring tech" is a reasonable default stance. IMHO, designing resilient systems in anticipation of change, and finding ways to incorporate the best of what's new, is the nature of the game and what helps keep it fun after all these years (closer to 30 vs your 40, but I'm no spring chicken).

Re: New MCP Roadmap

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Post by chrisweekly » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC

techpression wrote: post #40

chrisweekly wrote: post #31

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> "only use things that have been around for at least three years" Yikes. I can understand the desire to mitigate churn, but following this advice would be career suicide. Trying new things is essential.

Three years is nothing, what kind of work do you do where you need something released in the last three years? And I’m not OP, but I would assume the senior developers made a distinction between try and use.

What models do you use in your work?

Re: New MCP Roadmap

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Post by chrisweekly » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 9:26 PM UTC

Bjartr wrote: post #39

chrisweekly wrote: post #31

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> "only use things that have been around for at least three years" Yikes. I can understand the desire to mitigate churn, but following this advice would be career suicide. Trying new things is essential.

Keeping up with changes is valuable. At the same time, it's often smart to avoid putting things into production that haven't matured or demonstrated staying power. Or, to badly mangle Postel's law: Be liberal in what you learn, and conservative in what you deploy

Sure. No real disagreement here. (See also my replies to peer comments here.)

Re: New MCP Roadmap

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Post by willio58 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

nozzlegear wrote: post #97

rolisz wrote: post #77

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With authentication and on mobile? I agree that on desktop it's not particularly relevant. Or through openclaw. But for most people who use it through mobile, MCP solves some problems.

> With authentication and on mobile? It's been a long time since I've used Claude, but is it not able to just use curl and an API key that it keeps in its "memory" on mobile? Or can it only use curl on the desktop?

I honestly don’t know if Claud can curl on mobile. I also haven’t had it try and store auth keys in memory.

Setting up an MCP connector took like 10 minutes for me, and it provides a nice little ui in Claude/chatgpt to make it easier for non-technical users to set up. I think of MCPs as a layer over APIs that makes things easier to interact with, similar to a frontend of a site.

Theoretically, no site needs a frontend. Yet they all do.