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OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
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#52MCP is now the standard everyone must conform to. Couldn't possibly have predicted that 2 months ago.
Re: OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
#53They’re all in. They announced they’ll add support for it in the desktop app and the API in the coming months: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1904957755829481737
I'm surprised this was announced in a random tweet instead of a blog post with a release roadmap or something like that.
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#54> Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. That analogy may be helpful for mom, but not for me as a software engineer.
they probably mean it’s going to be difficult early on to find standards compliant implementations. and then always very annoying to make sure all involved components support the correct feature set.
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#55> Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. That analogy may be helpful for mom, but not for me as a software engineer.
Maybe they used an LLM to explain it. Gemini in particular is obsessed with these utterly useless analogies for everything , when I would prefer something closer to Wikipedia with more context. (Needless to say, I currently don't find LLMs useful for learning about things. That's a shame because that use case feels promising.)
I saw this ChatGPT-created analogy on a JS subreddit the other day:
> Imagine you have a robot in a room, and this robot can perform actions like turning on a light, opening a door, or picking up objects. Now, if you want to tell the robot to do something, you usually say something like, "Robot, pick up the pen!" or "Robot, open the door."
> In JavaScript, ‘this’ is like the "robot" in the room
Terrible.
Re: OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
#56> Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. That analogy may be helpful for mom, but not for me as a software engineer.
Honestly I’m now even more confused
It's got an open socket at the bottom, that accepts many different plugs.
I don't know if GP understands that his phrasing might not be so flattering for his mother ))
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#57Re: OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
#58> Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. That analogy may be helpful for mom, but not for me as a software engineer.
The full quote is better:
> MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context
> to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C
> provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals
> and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to
> different data sources and tools.Re: OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
#59> Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. That analogy may be helpful for mom, but not for me as a software engineer.
That's the same analogy anthropic uses to describe it.
Re: OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
#60> Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. That analogy may be helpful for mom, but not for me as a software engineer.
The closest software analogy I’ve heard is like passing around a callable/function with a standard interface. An LLM can call the callable and work with the returned data without needing to go back and forth between your application logic.