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There's a facinating number of posts mentioning MCP in the last week or two. Many of them from young accounts, or accounts with a post years ago, then nothing, and suddenly MCP. MCP itself just seems to be JSON-RPC with a schema to be self-describing, so it's not really that interesting that it warrants one post per day. The web page touts it as the magic needed to ensure you don't have to write API adapters for your LLM uses. Well, except you need to write or use an MCP server to do the translation. So unless you're using one that already exists (though hundreds have been advertised on HN recently,) you're just shifting the problem by adding a layer of indirection. They also specifically say that authentication is something we'll work out later, so it seems none of these will have access to the data that actually has value. I have no idea about this account specifically, but I'm starting to suspect there's a bot ring somewhere. |
It has been possibly the most fun I've ever had programming, as it's been unbelievably effective and quick. I believe the hype. I'll note I'm also very wary of the potential of malicious MCP servers and am rather hesitant to use any "community" projects, as much as it saddens me to feel I'm losing my trust in the open source community.