Comment by noodletheworld
20 hours ago
The thing about MCP is people can “do AI” without any AI.
That makes it enormously attractive for people who want to be part of the AI hype cycle but not devote much actual effort to it.
Especially since you dont have to actually do anything useful, just write a wrapper around something that already exists.
Wow! Now youre part of the AI hype cycle!
Maybe you too (like windsurf) can be bought for billions of dollars.
So… lots of people.
I can't help but feel that MCP and AI in general are where the web was in the late 90s. People and companies built silly websites that sometimes weren't more than just digital billboards, and things were definitely a bit overhyped (especially on the investment side), but if anything, they were underhyped in terms of how having an effective digital presence became even more crucial than it seemed in the 90s.
That's literally 99% of AI startups, except they're just plugged into one particular vendor's API.