MCP is eating the world

> I believe that MCP is a bit over-marketed

MCP is pretty cool, but the way every AI influencer pivoted to producing MCP glorification posts at the same time has been groan-inducing. I can usually ignore the hype cycles, but I've been bombarded with so much MCP influencer content in the past few months that I feel exhausted every time I see those three letters.

It never fails that if you look at their title it's: VP of XYZ at something.ai as well!

It's basically the story of the last 3 years. Can't ignore the technology, but every loser grifter in existence has been on AI full time. On average, the more they are fanatics of it, the less they're able to take advantage of what it actually can do, most often due to an inordinate amount of skill issues unrelated to AI.

All influencer content is groan-inducing, but the idea behind MCP is pretty huge: it's the ability to link LLM agent loops into basically arbitrary APIs. It would be weird if it wasn't attracting a lot of attention.

As a developer the hype is over the top for sure, but for the average marketer or influencer I can see how it is warranted.

Now if there is a good way to deal with authentication and authorization piece without agents gone wild that would excite me as a dev a lot more at this point.

If you're talking very specifically about MCP, and not about tool calling more generally, and you're just sort of making the point that the standards aren't fully baked or ready for general use --- that you can't yet reliably plug any API into an agent like Claude Code you don't control, then sure. But MCP is the public face of tool calling, and for tool calling generally that's not a real problem: you can make your own arrangements in your own agents, which are truly simple to write.

I think as a developer, as opposed to an IT integrator or something like that, you should be the most excited about this situation.

Tool-calling is pretty huge, but MCP (a standard for calling a tool over HTTP) is way over-hyped, and neither here nor there really.

When the crypto bubble burst, the fad chasers had to go somewhere. It is a tale as old as time.

MCP means you can get arbitrary tool calling from existing shrink-wrapped agents, like Claude Code, without writing your own agent. It's a big deal.

Which crypto bubble burst? The Bitcoin price still appears to be at all-time highs.

I'm sure your bitcoin are fine, seeing as the entrenched financial institutions and the old money crowd invested in them, their value isn't going to go down; nice to be part of that crowd I am sure. You may want to check in on NFTs, Terra Luna, Celsius, Safe Moon, SQUID, and FTX. I think they might not be at all time highs.

There is bitcoin/crypto currencies, and then there's bullshit and "<boring real world thing> BUT ON THE BLOCKCHAIN".

The former is well-understood and has legitimate use. The latter was a bubble that thankfully mostly burst by now, with the grifters moving on to the next fad (AI).