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I wasn't particularly interested in WebMCP until I had a conversation with a screenreader-using accessibility engineer who pointed out that WebMCP is an incredi
by simonw 2mo ago
I wasn't particularly interested in WebMCP until I had a conversation with a screenreader-using accessibility engineer who pointed out that WebMCP is an incredible accessibility technology disguised as an AI thing.
Imagine if we can trick a whole bunch of companies into making their booking systems API accessible under the pretense of "enabling agents"!
- altmanaltman 2mo agoBut it is not a pretense or disguise though if that's what they are doing right? Like its clearly an AI thing and the other benefits are side effects. But not everything is inception.
- simonw 2mo agoI think of it as similar to how SEO encouraged a lot of sites to start using more accessible markup and headings, which resulted in accessibility improvements even though the developers weren't thinking about that at all.
- qsdg17 2mo agoImagine if we can trick software engineers into tolerating AI by marketing it as accessibility! Which has happened countless times here already.