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That's MCP for you. MCP is literally just a wrapper around an API call, but because it has some LLM buzz sprinkled on top, people expect it to do some magic, w
by iLoveOncall 1y ago
That's MCP for you.
MCP is literally just a wrapper around an API call, but because it has some LLM buzz sprinkled on top, people expect it to do some magic, when they wouldn't expect the same magic from the underlying API.
- BeetleB 1y agoIt is just a wrapper around an API call. And that's all you need for magic. Explain how I would do this without an LLM: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/gemini-figured-out-my-nephews-name/ https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/gemini-figured-out-my-...
- iLoveOncall 1y agoIs this a trick question? You lay out exactly how you would do this without an LLM in the prompt...
- BeetleB 1y agoThe whole point of this is I didn't need to come up with a strategy for figuring out a kid's name. The LLM has enough intelligence to do it. Put another way now that I have the MCP in place I no longer need to write any programs to do these tasks (unless you consider my prompt to be the program). I used it to find the name of a different person's kid. And it used a different set of queries than the one I sent you. How are you going to encode all possibilities merely by using an API? I use the exact same MCP tool to summarize emails, get me links from emails etc. You want me to write a program for each use case when I can do it all with just one program?