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0 pointsfkyoureadthedoc1y ago0 comments

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

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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.

kschrader1y 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.

varelaseb1y ago

This is literally not true. You can leverage MCP using any model. Even some of the IDEs you mention let you leverage MCP using many model providers.

knowaveragejoe1y 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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