alt Hacker NewsAll the code I work on now has an MCP interface so that the LLM can debug more easily. I'd argue it is as important as the UI these days. The amount of time it has saved me is unreal. It might be worth investing a very small amount of your time in it to see if it is a good fit. Even a poor protocol can provide useful functionality.
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Our workflows must be massively different.
I code in 8 languages, regularly, for several open source and industry projects.
I use AI a lot nowadays, but have never ever interacted with an MCP server.
I have no idea what I'm missing. I am very interested in learning more about what do you use it for.
You are right.
Although I have been a skeptic of MCPs, it has been an immense help with agents. I do not have an alternative at the moment.
I've just been discovering this pattern too. It's made a huge difference. Trying to get Claude to remote control an app for testing via the various other means was miserable and unreliable.
I got it to build an MCP server into the app that supported sending commands to allow Claude to interact with it as if it was a user, including keypresses and grabbing screenshots, and the difference was immediate and really beneficial.
Visual issues were previously one of the things it would tend to struggle with.