Totally serious question: is MCP basically an in-joke right now? I mean, I know what it is. I just don’t know why I’m seeing it everywhere in the last 3 days?
I'm also not really sure what's going on with the hype wave atm (people like having things to hype?) since MCP has also been around for a bit, seems like a bit of a meme.
IMO, the main value (as an agent / AI developer) that you get from MCP is another style of tool repository. Similar to how it's nice to have pre-made tools (eg Composio), MCP servers are another repo of tools to pull from (you just need to add MCP client functionality to your agent loop). So if a ton of energy is going into building MCP servers, might as well add MCP client support so that you can take advantage of the additional tools.
Probably people are excited about the prospect of having this problem be solved so that we can focus more on getting the agents to work rather than all be reimplementing the same data fetchers/parsers etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tron_characters#Master_Control_Program
The Master Control Program (MCP) ... is the main digital antagonist of the first Tron film.
