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0 pointskeithwhor0y ago0 comments

This is very cool but definitely has the XKCD standards vibe [0]. If the industry is standardizing on MCP but then we decide it's not good enough, we just end up back where we started. I hope there's enough willpower (and low enough ego) to get to a really tight, single great implementation.

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/

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namaria0y ago

Complete with the alt text mentioning USB, which is used in the MCP website to describe it. Someone else said it and I agree, it's not a good analogy. Most of what we do in software development is connecting things. Saying "this is like USB but for X" could cover a huge chunk of what software is.

Besides, this "think of" analogies kinda irk me because I don't want you to give me a mental image you think I can digest, I want to know how it works. Abstractions in software are great and all but the fact that for some reason most explainers have decided they should be opaque is very unhelpful when you're trying to learn.

soulofmischief0y ago

Only a certain subset of developer spends most of their time "connecting things", and if that's the kind of developer you consider yourself, I'd be looking to either upskill or change professions as this will be the first kind of developer eliminated if we continue to see decent progress in automation.

keithwhorOP0y ago

Would disagree there — system integration probably accounts for like 90% of development work; just at different layers of abstraction.

It’s evergreen work that companies are endlessly trying to eliminate or automate yet keep running headfirst into.

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thomasfromcdnjs0y ago

aha can't disagree with that sentiment, best I can do is not make the standard suck.

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