alt Hacker NewsLooks like the GraphQL beginnings, it feels fresh now and the AI products kind of nudge everything that way but fundamentally the main point is being able to package an API into a standard format, with documented endpoints, support for authentication, and different transports.
Nothing that couldn't be solved by a well designed REST API with Swagger documentation (and authentication, and websockets), but by being the same interface for all APIs it reduces the burden on the LLM.
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_heimdall • yesterday at 11:06 AM
You wouldn't even need Swagger if we actually used REST. Swagger is only around because we abandoned REST for RPC.
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> but by being the same interface for all APIs it reduces the burden on the LLM
It doesn't reduce the burden for the LLM, as the LLM isn't the piece of software directly interfacing with the MCP server. It reduced the burden for people building clients that call LLMs and have to convert external interfaces into tool calls etc..