alt Hacker News"MCP" is the new "API" (MCP over streaming HTTP, after all, is just an API with a structured payload wrapper and defined interactions).
It is only going to continue to proliferate in usage and adoption.
"MCP" is the new "API" (MCP over streaming HTTP, after all, is just an API with a structured payload wrapper and defined interactions).
It is only going to continue to proliferate in usage and adoption.
With the v2 spec, MCP became a lot closer to APIs by becoming stateless. And there is now a push to use HTTP verbs more extensively to improve caching even better in v3. MCP is converging into APIs but wit great auth and auditing