Comment by ianbutler

It's not particularly hard for current models to wire up a http client based on the docs and every major company has well documented APIs for how to do so either with their SDKs or curl.

I don't know that I really agree its as annoying for agents since they don't have the concept of annoyance and can trundle along infinitely fine.

While I appreciate the standardization I've often felt MCPs are a poor solution to a real problem that coincided with a need for good marketing and a desire to own mindspace here from Anthropic.

I've written a lot of agents now and when I've used MCP it has only made them more complicated for not an apparent benefit.

MCP's value lies in the social alignment of people agreeing to use it, it's technical merits seem dubious to me while its community merits seem high.

I can accept the latter and use it because of that while thinking there were other paths we probably should have chosen that make better use of 35 years of existing standards.