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Soon, they will discover APIs. (Application Programming Interfaces). Where programs interact with each other with given contracts/protocols/prototypes. /pun

• otabdeveloper4 1y ago
  Sounds complex. We'll need an AI-enabled Google or Microsoft to figure this stuff out for us and sell as a cloud subscription service.
• blef 1y ago
  Never heard of it. Is API the thing we develop for MCPs to interact with?
  • _zoltan_ 1y ago
    yes but we need a lot of SOAP and XML. soon. /s :)
• mrheosuper 1y ago
  Then MSFT discovers COM.
  • orphea 1y ago
    That's fine. Wait until AI bros discover COM (Context Orchestration Mechanisms).
• IanCal 1y ago
  The common but lazy joke. This is about connecting agents which have a specific set of requirements about the apis they can call and existing APIs.
• razvi0211 1y ago
  Funnily enough, thats exactly what UTCP is. Its just a way to let your AI leverage existing APIs instead of doing any wrapper protocols (like MCP) for the tool call. The protocol is only for discovery. It gets out of the way for the actual call