alt Hacker NewsYou are fundamentally misunderstanding what is happening here and how this is all works.
"HTTP calling abilities of LLMs" is not some magic, new feature that is deeply integrated into LLMs. It's just a tool call like everything else - i.e. you prompt the LLM to return a JSON object that conforms to a schema.
MCP is also doing this exact same thing. It's just a wrapper protocol that tries to take care of all the details so that we don't have to deal with a million custom protocols that all accomplish the same thing but are all incompatible.
You are fundamentally misunderstanding the point I am making. LLMs have repeatedly started with training wheels and then slowly had them taken off as they have become more and more competent. MCP is another example of training wheels that will likely eventually go away. If the direct web/API calling abilities of LLMs were to improve with better trained models and some more built in support then MCP could go away and nobody would miss it.