I'm very bullish on MCP (or at least MCP "like" implementations), as they solve a lot of problems for non-devs as they're much easier and safer to add into ChatGPT, Claude and other desktop + web apps.

They provide a set of tools and a context when to use those tools (much like a packaged version of a CLI+API and a skill) which makes them more discoverable than other options.

I've got a few folks using my open source data storage MCP - https://github.com/ExpeditedProjects/hutchdb - now and it makes a lot more sense than any other implementation for what they're doing

I agree, I've found MCP to be a waste of time. Any HTTP API + OpenAPI spec is sufficient to get my agents to do anything they need to do. Bonus that it just uses regular HTTP semantics and all the tools and infrastructure that have been developed around that for decades. Instead of some inscrutable json RPC POST-only payload that needs tons of custom tooling for introspection, logging, etc.

So I’ve been working on a personal finance app, and I added an MCP to it. Connected my Claude to it, mainly for testing purposes.

The other day I was heading to Home Depot to buy some gardening stuff and I was asking some some questions around what I could plant at this time and still harvest before winter.

It answers me, then brings up how my home improvement budget is nearing its limit for the month. I then ask it how I’m doing on my wider retirement plan and it mentions I’m a few thousand dollars ahead of schedule for the plan. So I decided it’s okay to go over budget on that category this month.

This type of emergent behavior of agents you work with having more context about you, it’s very useful in ways I didn’t expect.

I’ll never understand the “I’ve never used it but am absolutely certain I would get zero value from it if I did” mentality.

I use MCP to accelerate CAD mould-making and for music production. I use it to avoid copying and pasting slack threads, and to let AI drive an eval system so I don’t have to manually configure things in a UI.

It’s just hard to imagine both not using it and being so sure it has no use.

Because you're a dev thinking for devs. No 60 year old is going to use Claude skills with the CLI. If my customers want their AI to interact with my product and MCP is the best way about it.

I use Pi and I’m coming to the conclusion that mostly all I need is a bash tool.

If you need to give access to your CRM/ERP system from ChatGPT / Claude desktop for non-tech users, MCP is the way.

I build integration for DollarDeploy but it was tricky.

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