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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 12:53:50 JST Anil Dash

   Squinting at MCP as an old person, seeing which parts are like CGI, which parts are like Gopher, and which parts are like SOAP.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 16:08:48 JST Anil Dash

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     • Patrick Berry

     @mcc @pberry @ohmu came from that, but you can use it for arbitrary queries for any kind of API. It’s just API discovery, nothing intrinsic to LLMs.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 16:08:49 JST mcc

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     • Patrick Berry

     @pberry @ohmu @anildash "MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs"

     All right. Well that sounds like literally all the information I will ever need about this

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     Patrick Berry (pberry@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 16:08:50 JST Patrick Berry

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     • Weird Socks

     @ohmu @mcc @anildash model context protocol https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 16:09:00 JST mcc

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     @anildash Master Control Program?

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     Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 16:09:00 JST Weird Socks

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     @mcc @anildash
     I second this querie.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:43:27 JST Anil Dash

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     • Weird Socks
     • Arch :arch:
     • Patrick Berry

     @arch @mcc @pberry @ohmu yeah it’s bad, but also all specs that get broadly adopted are bad

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     Arch :arch: (arch@floofy.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:43:29 JST Arch :arch:

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     • Patrick Berry

     @mcc @pberry @ohmu @anildash the spec for the protocol itself seemingly generated by an LLM itself https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp