alt Hacker NewsMCPs are winning because within the ChatGPT and Claude apps, there are Plugin stores. These plugins are one-click installation MCP servers, with support for authentication. This is what business users are using.
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To be fair, after visiting some trade shows recently, a lot of these “parasitic” LLM startups are not very convincing from a business-use case perspective. (They’re not really parasitic, more like a remora attaching itself to a shark, the shark being OpenAI or Anthropic).
At IMTS at Chicago the skepticism amongst the visitors towards AI and pure-AI startups was at an all-time high. More than once I heard, “Oh yeah I visited that AI booth and they couldn’t explain what value they would add to my business.”
So in that sense, while MCPs are “winning”, I also see them as a significant part of the AI “bubble”, specifically solutions looking for problems backed by VC money.
Exactly this. It’s a very effective way to integrate your app into Claude/openai.
I was anti-MCP at one point when it was eating up a substantial amount of context in Claude code. That’s largely been fixed now.
From my perspective, they are a great way to wrap an API for agent consumption. I can see a future where every major commercial or service website (think airline websites) have an MCP your agent can use to check flight status, rebook, or check you in.