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I will also freely admit to not understanding MCP much, but using it without an LLM was (at least to my reading) pretty much the main thesis of the linked artic

I will also freely admit to not understanding MCP much, but using it without an LLM was (at least to my reading) pretty much the main thesis of the linked article. "Okay but. But. What if you just... removed the AI part? What if it's just "a standardized way to connect literally anything to different data sources and tools"?" (which had struck out text 'AI models' in between 'connect' and 'literally')

brabel 1y ago
You’re right. It’s unclear, however, how your application will handle knowing when to call a tool/MCP. That’s the part where LLMs are so good at: understanding that to do a certain job, this or that tool would be useful, and then knowing how to provide the necessary parameters for the tool call (I say tool here because MCP is just a convenient way to pack a normal tool, in other words, it’s a plugin system for tools).