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MCP is eating the world

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335 points emschwartz | 1 comments | 21 Jun 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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ravenstine ◴[24 Jun 25 16:24 UTC] No.44367879[source]▶
> Heck, even MCP itself isn’t new—the spec was released by Anthropic in November, but it suddenly blew up in February, 3 months later.

Wow, the idea of what's "new" in software has always been really short, but damn, it's becoming questionable whether anything can be considered new these days.

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1. dack ◴[24 Jun 25 16:29 UTC] No.44367941[source]▶
yeah it's crazy to think that claude 4 has only been out a month. And the previous iteration 3.7 was launched only in February!

but also I think the interesting thing is that people didn't jump on MCP immediately after it launched - it seemed to go almost unnoticed until February. Very unusual for AI tech - I guess it took time for servers to get built, clients to support the protocol, and for the protocol itself to go through a few revisions before people really understood the value.