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MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File
There's a lot of buzz around MCP. I'm not convinced it needs to exist.
The idea is simple: teach large language models (LLMs) how to interact with other software systems. In doing so, LLMs can learn from and affect the real world; they can call a web service to make a phone call, invoke a command line interface (CLI) tool to add an item to a grocery list in a reminder app, and so on. And ChatGPT is actually better at CLIs than most humans—just watch Codex fly through sed, awk, and grep commands.
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