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MCP is eating the world

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335 points emschwartz | 2 comments | 21 Jun 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Animats ◴[24 Jun 25 17:44 UTC] No.44368767[source]▶
> At Stainless, we’re betting it’s here to stay.

By a seller of MCP.

The trouble with MCP is that it requires a trip through an LLM for every transaction. It's not like the ends negotiate a simple protocol so that later queries are cheap. That's a huge cost increase as traffic increases.

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1. taberiand ◴[24 Jun 25 22:53 UTC] No.44371911[source]▶
There is no reason you couldn't design the system to hand off to a simple protocol through an MCP call, it's entirely up to what works in the specific situation. There is nothing in the design that mandates a path through the LLM for every request or transaction.
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2. Animats ◴[25 Jun 25 03:11 UTC] No.44373343[source]▶
Except that that's the easy path to implement.