[gsibble]

MCP is great for when you’re integrating tools locally into IDEs and such. It’s a terrible standard for building more robust applications with multi-user support. Security and authentication are completely lacking.

99% of people wouldn’t be able to find the API keys you need to feed into most MCP servers.

[sunpazed]

While I’m a fan, we’re not using MCP for any production workloads for these very reasons.

Authentication, session management, etc, should be handled outside of the standard, and outside of the LLM flow entirely.

I recently mused on these here; https://github.com/sunpazed/agent-mcp/blob/master/mcp-what-i...

[bswamina]

You are correct ... it is still early days IMHO ... will have to see how this evolves

[pkoird]

What, according to you, are some alternatives that exist or are in development that fill these gaps?