MCPs are winning because within the ChatGPT and Claude apps, there are Plugin stores. These plugins are one-click installation MCP servers, with support for authentication. This is what business users are using.
Exactly this. It’s a very effective way to integrate your app into Claude/openai.
I was anti-MCP at one point when it was eating up a substantial amount of context in Claude code. That’s largely been fixed now.
From my perspective, they are a great way to wrap an API for agent consumption. I can see a future where every major commercial or service website (think airline websites) have an MCP your agent can use to check flight status, rebook, or check you in.
To be fair, after visiting some trade shows recently, a lot of these “parasitic” LLM startups are not very convincing from a business-use case perspective. (They’re not really parasitic, more like a remora attaching itself to a shark, the shark being OpenAI or Anthropic).
At IMTS at Chicago the skepticism amongst the visitors towards AI and pure-AI startups was at an all-time high. More than once I heard, “Oh yeah I visited that AI booth and they couldn’t explain what value they would add to my business.”
So in that sense, while MCPs are “winning”, I also see them as a significant part of the AI “bubble”, specifically solutions looking for problems backed by VC money.
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mstank · · focus · HN ↗
I was anti-MCP at one point when it was eating up a substantial amount of context in Claude code. That’s largely been fixed now.
From my perspective, they are a great way to wrap an API for agent consumption. I can see a future where every major commercial or service website (think airline websites) have an MCP your agent can use to check flight status, rebook, or check you in.
datsci_est_2015 · · focus · HN ↗
At IMTS at Chicago the skepticism amongst the visitors towards AI and pure-AI startups was at an all-time high. More than once I heard, “Oh yeah I visited that AI booth and they couldn’t explain what value they would add to my business.”
So in that sense, while MCPs are “winning”, I also see them as a significant part of the AI “bubble”, specifically solutions looking for problems backed by VC money.