alt Hacker NewsI appreciate their reluctance towards MCP, but /something/ is better than nothing.
It’s suboptimal for the reasons the author outlines: but so is USB-C. So is NVME, so is HDMI.
We use these hugely successful technologies in spite of their flaws because they’re widely compatible and easy for the end user.
That’s why MCP is everywhere. It might not be performant, robust and uniform but it WILL get better over time.
And I’d much rather have the broad MCP ecosystem that we have now than seven or eight different “optimal” ways of plugging in an LLM to something useful.
Agreed. I personally don't use any MCP but I think it was a good move.
I hope they'll do the same and eventually add native support for ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/introduction) which, on the contrary, I use quite.