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    MCP is eating the world

    (www.stainless.com)
    335 points emschwartz | 14 comments | 21 Jun 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.626s | source | bottom
    1. pabzu ◴[24 Jun 25 16:33 UTC] No.44367982[source]▶
    Another hyped/clickbait headline about a "new technology" that will "transform everything"

    written by a company that sells this "new technology".

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    2. sylens ◴[24 Jun 25 16:38 UTC] No.44368053[source]▶
    I just saw some job postings asking for 8+ years experience in MCP
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    3. barbazoo ◴[24 Jun 25 16:46 UTC] No.44368160[source]▶
    You need 10+ for senior though.
    4. olddustytrail ◴[24 Jun 25 16:59 UTC] No.44368297[source]▶
    I think you're joking but if not I'd love to see one!
    5. skeeter2020 ◴[24 Jun 25 17:21 UTC] No.44368520[source]▶
    >> >> Heck, even MCP itself isn’t new—the spec was released by Anthropic in November

    woosh!

    6. saulpw ◴[24 Jun 25 17:37 UTC] No.44368686[source]▶
    1 year for a human is like 10 in AI-years.
    7. ypeterholmes ◴[24 Jun 25 17:56 UTC] No.44368894[source]▶
    How does it sell a basic protocol that anyone can use?
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    8. layer8 ◴[24 Jun 25 18:04 UTC] No.44368964[source]▶
    Not a problem for the 15x programmer.
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    9. ezekiel68 ◴[24 Jun 25 18:12 UTC] No.44369038[source]▶
    It's clearly a plot by Big MCP to sell us more MCP. /s
    10. kibwen ◴[24 Jun 25 18:51 UTC] No.44369536{3}[source]▶
    15x is a rookie multiplier, do you need me to explain how exponential curves work? Within mere months I'll need to start resorting to up-arrow notation to express my value as a developer. And someday I might even start making more money too!
    11. rattray ◴[24 Jun 25 19:08 UTC] No.44369783[source]▶
    Taking this question at face value, because you asked: Stainless generates MCP servers for REST APIs (a ~simple[0] translation of an OpenAPI to a suite of MCP tools).

    We actually generate MCP for free (we charge for SDKs), so we're technically not selling, but I don't begrudge GP's comment/sentiment.

    [0]https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-co... describes some ways in which this is less simple than you think. The "Handling large APIs dynamically" section near the bottom covers the most salient challenge related to converting large APIs to MCP tools, but there's more work to do.

    12. steve_adams_86 ◴[24 Jun 25 20:56 UTC] No.44370967[source]▶
    Well you see I run dozens of agents at once so my hours of experience accumulate at 10-100x real time. I've got about 200 years of experience in MCP. I accumulated another 3 years of experience while typing this
    13. dgellow ◴[25 Jun 25 09:29 UTC] No.44375276[source]▶
    Hi, I work at Stainless. We don’t make money from generating MCP servers. You can do it for free, it’s just a config option in your Typescript SDK config
    14. gabrielhidasy ◴[25 Jun 25 18:39 UTC] No.44380542[source]▶
    Any chance they want someone that got the "Microsoft Certified Professional" badge 8 years ago or more?