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> But MCP also feels a bit overrated: VCs invested in AI and agentic companies needed a way to get you guys to accelerate agents this year. So why not "create
by rvz 2y ago
> But MCP also feels a bit overrated:
VCs invested in AI and agentic companies needed a way to get you guys to accelerate agents this year.
So why not "create" artificial hype for MCPs on the internet, since there were little to no MCP servers for LLMs to use despite it being several months old (November 2024) until Cursor integrated it.
This is the true reason why you see them screaming about MCPs everywhere.
- fkyoureadthedoc 2y agoSo the main criticism is a borderline conspiracy theory about VC's creating artificial hype for it?
- AtomBalm 2y agoHype isn’t free. Maybe the benefit is mutual, but I can’t tell how Anthropic gets paid. Anthropic subsidizes an open standard, but proprietary extensions later emerge that lock you into servers from their marketplace or something? I need a sociopath to help me understand this.
- kschrader 2y agoThe Anthropic models are running underneath everything (Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor, etc). Whenever someone is using MCP they (in the generalized case, until now) ultimately end up using Anthropic as their LLM and Anthropic gets paid whenever someone does that.
- varelaseb 2y agoThis is literally not true. You can leverage MCP using any model. Even some of the IDEs you mention let you leverage MCP using many model providers.
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoThere's already like a half dozen such "marketplaces" and they all ultimately point to open source repos. If the goal was to lock people in, they did a bad job of it.