> The story isn’t “MCP was a fake marketing thing pushed on us”. It’s a story of how quickly the meta evolves.

The original take was that "We need to make tools which an AI can hold, because they don't have fingers" (like a quick-switch on a CNC mill).

My $job has been generating code for MCP calls, because we found that MCP is not a good way to take actions from a model, because it is hard to make it scriptable.

It definitely does a good job of progressively filling a context window, but changing things is often multiple operations + a transactional commit (or rename) on success.

We went from using a model to "change this" vs "write me a reusable script to change this" & running it with the right auth tokens.