https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
The blog post’s point about MCP servers being a universal protocol for doing stuff on other platforms cracks me up because we already invented this. It’s called a REST API. The internet collectively spent 15 years hooking everything up to APIs before companies realized that they weren’t making money from their free APIs and shut them down (think Reddit, Twitter, etc).
Now all the LLM agent hype is just making everyone remember how awesome it is to be able to do stuff on a platform without being forced to use some proprietary app. At least for now, it seems like we’re seeing a resurgence of APIs and more open and accessible data which I’m all for as long as the hype lasts before companies go back to locking everything down again.
https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0