So why are people so excited about MCP, and so suddenly? I think you know the answer by now: hype. Mostly hype, with a bit of the classic fascination among software engineers for architecture. You just say Model Context Protocol, server, client, and software engineers get excited because it’s a new approach — it sounds fancy, it sounds serious.
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
Because it’s accessible, useful, and interesting. MCP showed up at the right time, in the right form—it was easy for developers to adopt and actually helped solve real problems. Now, a lot of people know they want something like this in their toolbox. Whether it’s MCP or something else doesn’t matter that much—‘MCP’ is really just shorthand for a new class of tooling AND feels almost consumer-grade in its usability.
