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Another hyped/clickbait headline about a "new technology" that will "transform everything" written by a company that sells this "new technology".
by pabzu 1y ago
Another hyped/clickbait headline about a "new technology" that will "transform everything"
written by a company that sells this "new technology".
- sylens 1y agoI just saw some job postings asking for 8+ years experience in MCP
- barbazoo 1y agoYou need 10+ for senior though.
- olddustytrail 1y agoI think you're joking but if not I'd love to see one!
- skeeter2020 1y ago>> >> Heck, even MCP itself isn’t new—the spec was released by Anthropic in November woosh!
- saulpw 1y ago1 year for a human is like 10 in AI-years.
- layer8 1y agoNot a problem for the 15x programmer.
- kibwen 1y ago15x is a rookie multiplier, do you need me to explain how exponential curves work? Within mere months I'll need to start resorting to up-arrow notation to express my value as a developer. And someday I might even start making more money too!
- steve_adams_86 1y agoWell you see I run dozens of agents at once so my hours of experience accumulate at 10-100x real time. I've got about 200 years of experience in MCP. I accumulated another 3 years of experience while typing this
- gabrielhidasy 1y agoAny chance they want someone that got the "Microsoft Certified Professional" badge 8 years ago or more?
- ypeterholmes 1y agoHow does it sell a basic protocol that anyone can use?
- ezekiel68 1y agoIt's clearly a plot by Big MCP to sell us more MCP. /s
- rattray 1y agoTaking this question at face value, because you asked: Stainless generates MCP servers for REST APIs (a ~simple[0] translation of an OpenAPI to a suite of MCP tools). We actually generate MCP for free (we charge for SDKs), so we're technically not selling, but I don't begrudge GP's comment/sentiment. [0]https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-complex-openapi-specs-to-mcp-servers https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-co... describes some ways in which this is less simple than you think. The "Handling large APIs dynamically" section near the bottom covers the most salient challenge related to converting large APIs to MCP tools, but there's more work to do.
- dgellow 1y agoHi, I work at Stainless. We don’t make money from generating MCP servers. You can do it for free, it’s just a config option in your Typescript SDK config