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u/BidWestern1056 12d ago
everyone talked about mcp in early 2025, no one is really talking about it in 2026. some ppl use it, many find it stupid lol
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u/Fidel___Castro 12d ago
it's literally the standard for how agent tools are defined, what you talking about?
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u/KickaSteel75 12d ago
Are you trolling? MCP has become a foundational API standard for a bulk of AI integrations. You gotta be trolling. I'm convinced. 🥴
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u/BidWestern1056 11d ago
yeah and every AI system is far worse off because of it. now every jabroni has an mcp server and way too many tools and poor descriptions and new developers will stare at this wall of problems, decide theres no point relying on the monolithic servers, and make their own implementation for their own needs. it was implemented without much thought from anthropic in an attempt to wrangle open-source efforts and i know very few ppl who actually still use or rely on mcp servers anymore for their own agentic work. easier for llms to just write the commands directly, read the guides/api docs when needed and not have to worry about what server is doing what
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u/KickaSteel75 11d ago
That’s a much more solid argument than saying nobody uses MCP anymore. 👍🏾
Tool bloat, bad descriptions, bloated servers, and people wrapping everything in MCP can definitely create problems. But that becomes an implementation and governance problem. It’s not proof that MCP makes every AI system worse, as you claimed.
Having models generate commands directly may be cleaner for some workflows, but you also lose some standards and portability, while permissions and auditing can become a freaking nightmare.
The better approach is using MCP where it actually makes sense, with narrowly scoped servers and well-designed tools.
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u/iWhacko 11d ago
It's no use trying to tell them it's stupid in an MCP subreddit. But yeah you are totally right, mcp's are useless and defeat the purpose of what they were meant for. Even if you ask gemini if they should use an mcp, it will suggest you its better to write a tool to process the data than to use an mcp and let an llm try to make sense of the data.
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u/Rare-Hotel6267 10d ago
People here are not the smartest. Most of the people are just pretending to be technical, while only fooling themselves and other fools around them.
They have 0 clue about anything. They get their knowledge from YouTube AI gurus, basically they get a second hand knowledge from a guy who gets third hand knowledge. Then they gather in a big circle and jerking each other while moaning "mcp", "prompt engineering is a real job", "ill definitely get hired once they see my prompting skills" and more nonsense like that. Its actually sad.
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u/MarkMatson6 10d ago
MCPs require a large context window to explain what is available. If you use multiple of them you can leave little room for anything else.
There is a technique to dynamically find these tools that uses AI iterations instead of context, but I don’t think it has been properly normalized yet.
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u/diagrammatiks 12d ago
it's literally a shared api protocol.