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0 pointsrvz0y ago0 comments

> But MCP also feels a bit overrated:

VCs invested in AI and agentic companies needed a way to get you guys to accelerate agents this year.

So why not "create" artificial hype for MCPs on the internet, since there were little to no MCP servers for LLMs to use despite it being several months old (November 2024) until Cursor integrated it.

This is the true reason why you see them screaming about MCPs everywhere.

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fkyoureadthedoc0y ago

So the main criticism is a borderline conspiracy theory about VC's creating artificial hype for it?

AtomBalm0y ago

Hype isn’t free. Maybe the benefit is mutual, but I can’t tell how Anthropic gets paid.

Anthropic subsidizes an open standard, but proprietary extensions later emerge that lock you into servers from their marketplace or something? I need a sociopath to help me understand this.

kschrader0y ago

The Anthropic models are running underneath everything (Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor, etc). Whenever someone is using MCP they (in the generalized case, until now) ultimately end up using Anthropic as their LLM and Anthropic gets paid whenever someone does that.

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knowaveragejoe0y ago

There's already like a half dozen such "marketplaces" and they all ultimately point to open source repos. If the goal was to lock people in, they did a bad job of it.

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