MCP Explained

This is too dense. You might as well just post some Python code with sufficient comments to get the same point across. I think a nicely written article with a few diagrams would go a long way. Sometimes less is more.

MCPs don't really need this level of technical explanations (it's basically just a REST API with standardized endpoints for discovery aimed at agents), and AI agents really do lack in the taste dimension when it comes to these things.

The best thing about MCP is its almost impossible to use for most people except developers. Therefore ensuring our existence.

Don't believe me? Try connecting Blender to Codex.

Are MCP calls composable in e.g. codex yet? e.g. can a model pipe a jira MCP call to grep or sed, or at least into a file? Last I looked at MCP it was just a vastly worse version of curl, .netrc, and some short text files describing calls (which are themselves greppable). Is there anything useful beyond that that I'm missing?

I couldn't find a github link, if anyone knows where to find the code for this, I'd like to modify it to make it a primer more friendly to non-technical managers.

MCP is that kind of thing a manager comes up to you with and says "ARE WE USING MCP? it's the latest thing" and you roll your eyes, hunch over, stare at your screen and say to yourself "no, we're using strings, just strings." as you watch them drift to their next prey, you see scrawled up in their hands a note with crossed out acronyms. NFT. Web3. AMP. SOAP. IoT.

For me it's just:

from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP

mcp's are barely needed, good cli's are usually better

Horribly designed

This is noisy slop that doesn't explain anything. Maybe try starting with a definition and a single diagram?

I swear when I see stuff like this is makes me depressed about the future of our industry. Pick up an Edward Tufte book or something and use your brain

I've been thinking alot about developer education and while I think this format is fun to fiddle with, I feel this(and a lot of technical learning resources) are no longer as valuable as they would have been in a world without LLMS. Now if I wanna learn something I ask claude and I can essentially build my knowledge incrementally, have it build animations iteratively, ask questions and essentially derive an understanding.

My take away from this overview is that MCP is just a synonym for JSON RPC.

AI slop sorry

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