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The author seems to fundamentally misunderstand how MCPs are going to be used and deployed.

This is really obvious when they talk about tracing and monitoring, which seem to be the main points of criticism anyway.

They bemoan that they cant trace across MCP calls, assuming somehow there would be a person administering all the MCPs. Of course each system has tracing in whatever fashion fits its system. They are just not the same system, nor owned by the same people let alone companies.

Same as monitoring cost. Oh, you can’t know who racked up the LLM costs? Well of course you can, these systems are already in place and there are a million of ways to do this. It has nothing to do with MCP.

Reading this, I think its rather a blessing to start fresh and without the learnings of 40 years of failed protocols or whatever



> without the learnings of 40 years of failed protocols or whatever

1. Lessons.

2. Fairly sure all of Google is built on top of protobuf.




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