Bret Victor had an old video where he talked about a world in which computers very organically figured out how to interoperate. MCP feels like the first realization of that idea.

Yup. Makes sense. The biggest value of MCP is that everyone is using MCP. This too is not a new insight.

>What if it's just "a standardized way to connect AI models literally anything to different data sources and tools"?

Then you aren't exploring a novel concept, and you are better served learning about historical ways this challenge has been attempted rather than thinking it's the first time.

Unix pipes? APIs? POSIX? Json? The list is endless, this is one of the requirements that you can identify as just being a basic one of computers. Another example is anything that is about storing and remembering information. If it's so foundational, there will be tools and protocols to deal with this since the 70s.

For the love of god, before diving into the trendy new thing, learn about he boring old things.

Is this basically the XML/RSS/semantic web of this tech wave?

APM looks interesting, would love to try it out.

Omg I wish people would just shut up about mcp already.

It's not magic, it's just smashing tool descriptions into your prompt, and the implementation sucks for various reasons, including there being no standard for tool use tags, nor the mcp spec including a common way of handling function call responses.

It's literally just "json into prompt & then it's all you buddy!" batteries NOT included, lmao