alt Hacker NewsI meant to say that MCP is just a wrapper around good old function/tool calling, it's not a new superpower by itself. So, if you're designing a Saas, you don't need to use MCP yourself, you can just use good old function/tool calling.
To answer your specific queries, I use the autocomplete in VS Code and I directly chat with ChatGPT-o3 for advanced problems because my background is in Elixir and most models that are hyped up fail badly with Elixir. I'm always a huge fan of o3 as it can solve the most complex problems I throw at it..
Yes, but if I'm implementing "good old function/tool calling" today, why would I not implement it as MCP? I suppose it complicates things? MCP, in addition to being tooling endpoints, would also open up my software to a rapidly growing ecosystem that requires minimal additional work.
AND I can still use those same endpoints as tools. What would be the argument for "you don't need MCP when implementing new stuff"?