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0 pointsrvz1y ago0 comments

> That article seems to miss the point by being incurious about _why_ there is hype around MCP instead of LangChain, LangGrah, SmolAgents, LlamaIndex, etc.

The VCs that were invested in AI companies (like Cursor) would of course need to hype something up like MCPs to get us to build them as little of those tools did not exist.

Cursor already makes $100M+. So why not get behind and integrate this chosen standard to make even more money with more MCP servers.

The last ingredient is to hype it all up on the internet to get everyone building.

A win for the VCs regardless even though it was suspiciously orchestrated as soon as Cursor integrated it.

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leonidasv1y ago

MCPs aren't specific to Cursor. Rather, they enable any IDE to become a Cursor competitor.

Example: JetBrains released an MCP server plugin for their IDEs recently and it enables Claude Desktop to seamlessly use the IDE for reading and writing files and even compiling or running tests against it.

And that's just one example; there are MCP servers for anything from VSCode to Emacs already. That means almost anyone can now use LLMs to generate code in their IDE of choice, just as they would do with Cursor.

In fact, MCPs are posing a threat to many startups, especially the "wrapper" ones.

vessenes1y ago

I too feel it's bad that companies take VC money and build open standards which let me build faster and target more providers. Seriously, what? I struggle to understand the mindset of someone frequenting HN who can say unironically that "getting everyone building" is a bad outcome.

I'd like some more of that getting everyone building please.

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