[NitpickLawyer]

> it shows that even if models are plateauing,

The models aren't plateauing (see below).

> invention of MCP was a lot more instrumental [...] than model upgrades proper

Not clear. The folks at hf showed that a minimal "agentic loop" in 100 LoC [1] that gives the agent "just bash access" still got very close to SotA with all the bells and whistles (and surpassed last year models w/ handcrafted harnesses).

[1] - https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent

[theshrike79]

Small focused (local) model + tooling is the future, not online LLMs with monthly costs. Your coding model doesn't need all of the information in the world built in, it needs to know code and have tools available to get any information it needs to complete its tasks. We have treesitter, MCPs, LSPs, etc - use them.

The problem is that all the billions (trillions?) of VC money go to the online models because they're printing money at this point.

There's no money to be made in creating models people can run locally for free.

[StilesCrisis]

I mean, that's still proving the point that tooling matters. I don't think his point was "MCP as a technology is extraordinary" because it's not.