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It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it. Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, to

It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it. Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, tools) is easily done in harnesses that don’t ship with MCP but allow good extension / modification like Pi. Claude not being able to see its own usage or self invoke slash commands is also very frustrating.

oblio 3mo ago
> It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ > Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so you can’t move forward?
- CharlieDigital 3mo ago
  > ...Do they just want to force you to keep busy Given functionally unlimited access to tokens with frontier models, there is really no "force you to keep busy"; it should just bake overnight. We're talking about a rather simple and well-defined specification; not something novel and complex.
  - oblio 3mo ago
    My point is that there is a chance that Anthropic launched MCP: 1. not fully believing in it 2. but knowing the hype around MCP would force other AI labs to implement it (standard enterprise checkbox behavior) 3. thus wasting some of their competitors' development cycles * * * And let's be real here, the entire discussion happens in the context of a basic bug in a coding agent, do we really believe that these labs have hit AGI in coding? Random example: Go to claude.ai or gemini.google.com (I imagine OpenAI is in a similar situation). Type a question, press enter. Wait 2 seconds, then turn on airplane mode. Not only does the connection cut off, but even if you reconnect 20 minutes later, you still won't get the answer. Their website works in purely sync mode!!! We knew better than this when HTML was invented, 30 years ago. Do their products give you the impression than "baking features with unlimited tokens overnight" leads to decent products?

oblio 3mo ago

> It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ > Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so you can’t move forward?

CharlieDigital 3mo ago
> ...Do they just want to force you to keep busy Given functionally unlimited access to tokens with frontier models, there is really no "force you to keep busy"; it should just bake overnight. We're talking about a rather simple and well-defined specification; not something novel and complex.
- oblio 3mo ago
  My point is that there is a chance that Anthropic launched MCP: 1. not fully believing in it 2. but knowing the hype around MCP would force other AI labs to implement it (standard enterprise checkbox behavior) 3. thus wasting some of their competitors' development cycles * * * And let's be real here, the entire discussion happens in the context of a basic bug in a coding agent, do we really believe that these labs have hit AGI in coding? Random example: Go to claude.ai or gemini.google.com (I imagine OpenAI is in a similar situation). Type a question, press enter. Wait 2 seconds, then turn on airplane mode. Not only does the connection cut off, but even if you reconnect 20 minutes later, you still won't get the answer. Their website works in purely sync mode!!! We knew better than this when HTML was invented, 30 years ago. Do their products give you the impression than "baking features with unlimited tokens overnight" leads to decent products?