[maCDzP]

The comments are mostly negative, so I’ll add my experience as a non coder.

I wanted to let Claude search an open data source. It’s my counties version of library of congress.

So I pointed Claude to the MCP docs and the API spec for the open data. 5 minutes later I had a working MCP client so I can connect Claude to my data set.

Building that would have taken me days, now I can just start searching for the data that I want.

Sure, I have to proof read everything that the LLM turn out. It I believe that’s better than reading and searching though the library.

[lolinder]

I don't think any of the negativity is about whether MCP works. It's just about whether MCP is a horribly ill-planned design that could have been much better if they'd taken the time to learn from the 50 years of experience we have as an industry in building protocols.

That it works is in some ways worse because it means we'll be stuck with it. If it didn't work we'd be more likely to be able to throw it away and start over.