Pretty much, MCP is still a bad idea.

LLMs perform significantly better and faster when you strap them to plain old apis/and an open api spec with a search tool.

My current MCP design is… grab a fastapi spec shove it into fastmcp, shallow wrapper, search tool for the full schema.

Oh boy so exciting I just wrapped an api spec for no reason and have to host infra for the translation layer. If only we invented api gateways.

But I am Mr. AI now.