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Big question in my mind was if OpenAI was going to formally endorse this (since it was created by Anthropic) but we have our answer. MCP is now the industry standard for connecting LLMs to external tools.
There's some other goodies too. OAuth 2.1 support, JSON-RPC Batching... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/specification/blob/m...
I hoped OpenAI would support OpenAPI for connecting to tools. Having created a couple of MCP servers, it feels like a less flexible and worse documented API to me. I can’t really see anything that is made better by MCP over OpenAPI. It’s a little bit less code for a lot less options. Give it some time and it will also get Swagger built in. It’s solving a problem that was already robustly solved. So get we go with ano…
Well it’s transport agnostic, for one.
I think a big part of it is defining a stateful connection and codifying the concepts of prompts and tools.
Another issue with OpenAPI / swagger is that you still need to create a client per API, but with MCP it’s all uniform.
Big question in my mind was if OpenAI was going to formally endorse this (since it was created by Anthropic) but we have our answer. MCP is now the industry standard for connecting LLMs to external tools.
so we no longer need langchain and stuff like that, that's a win. But MCP also feels a bit overrated: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
Big question in my mind was if OpenAI was going to formally endorse this (since it was created by Anthropic) but we have our answer. MCP is now the industry standard for connecting LLMs to external tools.
so we no longer need langchain and stuff like that, that's a win. But MCP also feels a bit overrated: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
We've had tool call frameworks before, but we haven't had a way of making tools that our clients actually talked to. There was no way to build tools that other people could download and run locally without getting them to switch to a client that baked those tools in. It's like the difference between static linking and dynamic linking, but for tool calls.
Big question in my mind was if OpenAI was going to formally endorse this (since it was created by Anthropic) but we have our answer. MCP is now the industry standard for connecting LLMs to external tools.
so we no longer need langchain and stuff like that, that's a win. But MCP also feels a bit overrated: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
Claude is like years ahead of everyone else with tools and agentic caps.
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so we no longer need langchain and stuff like that, that's a win. But MCP also feels a bit overrated: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
I could not find the actual criticism in that article. What's the problem with MCP again? It's the first standard for agents.
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I could not find the actual criticism in that article. What's the problem with MCP again? It's the first standard for agents.
the problem of agents is not the lack of standards, but reliability (reliability of tool use and reliability of outcomes). MCP does not solve any of that.