Exactly. Ultimately the economic incentives rather than tech frothiness will tell. One thing different from APIs is the LLM makers get tokens for every MCP cal

Exactly. Ultimately the economic incentives rather than tech frothiness will tell. One thing different from APIs is the LLM makers get tokens for every MCP call so they have incentives to hype this up significantly. MCP is useful - i use it quite a bit internally for some testing/QA workflows. However, the hype level is disproportionate to utility.