alt Hacker NewsMCP is a detail here. The exact same thing would happen if generate_node and search were exposed as REST endpoints, if Claude Desktop had used REST instead of MCP.
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visarga • yesterday at 3:12 PM
Maybe not, I think they trained the model to be especially capable of MCP tool use, and generated data this way. Other formats and systems might be slightly worse, and the whole model would probably not handle such a diversity of tools if all it had was trained on much less diverse API integrations.
Isn't part of the issue that LLM's are relatively bad at REST and json and all that?
I remember like 2 years ago there was big hype/revolution around ChatGPT finally being able to return ONLY valid json when you asked it to. So apparently LLMs are not that good at scripting without mistakes.
Having said that, I honestly have no clue what MCP looks like or is lol :p