alt Hacker News> I believe that MCP is a bit over-marketed
MCP is pretty cool, but the way every AI influencer pivoted to producing MCP glorification posts at the same time has been groan-inducing. I can usually ignore the hype cycles, but I've been bombarded with so much MCP influencer content in the past few months that I feel exhausted every time I see those three letters.
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It's basically the story of the last 3 years. Can't ignore the technology, but every loser grifter in existence has been on AI full time. On average, the more they are fanatics of it, the less they're able to take advantage of what it actually can do, most often due to an inordinate amount of skill issues unrelated to AI.
All influencer content is groan-inducing, but the idea behind MCP is pretty huge: it's the ability to link LLM agent loops into basically arbitrary APIs. It would be weird if it wasn't attracting a lot of attention.
It never fails that if you look at their title it's: VP of XYZ at something.ai as well!