[blitzar]

Yes, MCPs are just APIs but with a few extra steps and I hope it (or something like it) persists for a long time into the future. If all you want from an Ai assistant is content they scrapped a year ago then you dont need these things, otherwise you need a way to get live data or to take real time actions.

API's, even simple JSON data requests from websites and services were becoming increasing blocked behind cloudflare or hidden as a paid feature, MPC has revived (some of) the open data standards of the internet.