Comment by philipwhiuk

2 months ago

If you have to build an MCP for every system you aren’t building intelligence in the first place.

Why does it matter? I don't care whether it's intelligent, I just need it to be useful. In order to be useful it needs to start fucking up less, stat. In current form it's borderline useless.

I think a piece of software that can correctly decide what oracle to consult to get answers to questions you give it can be called intelligent, even if it itself doesn’t know any facts.

Fair criticism, but also this arguably would be preferable. For many use cases it would be strictly better, as you've built some sort of automated drone that can do lots of work but without preferences and personality.

You don't need specialised MCPs for this. In the past you could add "use python" to there chatgpt prompt and it would do the right thing. This is exactly the intelligent "use the right tool for the right thing" idea. Chatgpt just want trained to apply it in the right circumstances automatically.

We have fingers and a keyboard / mouse, because that's the best thing we've come up with. If we could output binary to a bunch of program interfaces directly (perhaps via some neuralink type thing) we would surely take that option.