[n_ary]

Is this the beginning of the apps for everything era and finally the SaaS for your LLM begins? Initially we had internet but value came when instead of installed apps, webapps arrived to become SaaS. Now if LLMs can use specific remote MCP which is another SaaS for your LLM, the remote MCP powered service can charge a subscription to do wonderful things and voila! Let the new golden age of SaaS for LLMs begin and the old fad(replace job XYZ with AI) die already.

[insin]

It's perfect, nobody will have time to care about how many 9s your service has because the nondeterministic failure mode now sitting slap-bang in the middle is their problem!

[Manfred]

Imagine dynamic subscription rates based on vibes where you won't even notice price hikes because not even the supplier can explain what they are.

[clvx]

I'm more excited I can run now a custom site, hook an MCP for it, and have all the cool intelligence I had to pay for SaaS without having to integrate to them plus govern my data, it's a massive win. I just see AI assistant coding replicating current SaaS services that I can run internally. If my shop was a specific stack, I could aim to have all my supporting apps in that specific stack using AI assistant coding, simplifying operations, and being able to hook up MCP's to get intelligence from all of them.

Truly, OSS should be more interesting in the next decade for this alone.

[heyheyhouhou]

We should all thank the chinese companies for releasing so many incredible open weight models. I hope they keep doing it, I dont want to rely on OpenAI, Anthropic or Google for all my future computer interactions.

[achierius]

Don't forget Meta, without them we probably wouldn't have half the publicly available models we do today.

[naravara]

On one hand, yes this is very cool for a whole host of personal uses. On the other hand giving any company this level of access to as many different personal data sources as are out there scares the shit out of me.

I’d feel a lot better if we had something resembling a comprehensive data privacy law in the United States because I don’t want it to basically be the Wild West for anyone handling whatever personal info doesn’t get covered under HIPAA.

[falcor84]

Absolutely agreed, but just wanted to mention that it's essentially the same level of access you would give to Zapier, which is one of their top examples of MCP integrations.

[n_ary]

It took many years for online tracking, iframes, sticky cookies and cambridge analytics before things like GDPR came into existence. We have to similarly wait a few years before similar major leaks happen through LLM pipelines/integrations. Sadly, that is the reality we live with.

[jimbokun]

The question is whether or not it happens before the emergence of Skynet.

[OtherShrezzing]

I'd love a _tip jar_ MCP, where the LLM vendor can automatically tip my website for using its content/feature/service in a query's response. Even if the amount is absolutely minuscule, in aggregate, this might make up for ad revenue losses.

[fredoliveira]

Not that exactly, but I just saw this on twitter a few minutes ago from Stripe: https://x.com/jeff_weinstein/status/1918029261430255626

[consumer451]

This had never occurred to me, and it’s pretty cool.

It is really cool to witness the velocity of MCP adoption.

[donmcronald]

> Now if LLMs can use specific remote MCP which is another SaaS for your LLM, the remote MCP powered service can charge a subscription to do wonderful things and voila!

I've always worked under the assumption the best employees make themselves replaceable via well defined processes and high quality documentation. I have such a hard time understanding why there's so much willingness to integrate irreplaceable SaaS solutions into business processes.

I haven't used AI a ton, but everything I've done has focused on owning my own context, config, etc.. How much are people going to be willing to pay if someone else owns 10+ years of their AI context?

Am I crazy or is owning the context massively valuable?

[brumar]

Hello fellow context owner. I like my modules with their context.sh at their root level. If crafted with care, magic happens. Reciprocally, when AI derails, it's most often due to bad context management and fixed by improving it.

[throwaway7783]

MCP is yet another interface for an existing SaaS (like UI and APIs), but now magically "agent enabled". And $$$ of course