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... MCP is almost literally just a JSON schema and a "yo, this stuff exists" for AI. It is great to have it standardised and we're all very thankful not to be u
by roenxi 1y ago
... MCP is almost literally just a JSON schema and a "yo, this stuff exists" for AI. It is great to have it standardised and we're all very thankful not to be using XML but there just isn't that much there.
MCP is fulfilling the promise of AI agents being able to do their own thing. None of this is unintended, unforeseen or particularly dependent on the existence of MCP. It is exciting, the fact that AI has this capability captures the dawn of a new era. But the important thing in the picture isn't MCP - it is the power of the models themselves.
- layer8 1y agoXML actually works better with LLMs than JSON.
- zahlman 1y agoWhy?
- layer8 1y agoPresumably because XML tags give better context. You have closing tags, and each array element has its own tags. The tag syntax is different from the value syntax, whereas in JSON both labels and string values use the same syntax. JSON strings are delimited by the same character ("), whereas XML uses two different characters (>…<). Non-string values in JSON have more variations in their delimitation than values in XML.