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There is zero chance I would use MCP – LangChain Creator


Model Context Protocol (MCP) is creating quite the stir on Twitter – but is it actually useful, or just noise? In this back and forth, Harrison Chase (LangChain CEO) and Nuno Campos (LangGraph Lead) debate whether MCP lives up to the hype. Harrison: I’ll take the position that MCP is

The compelling use case – the one where you give Cursor new capabilities even its creators didn’t dream of by just injecting your one magical tool – won’t actually work most of the time in practice. So what’s the difference here – is it the amazing MCP form factor of having to run a million servers in my terminal locally and only being compatible with desktop apps? A stateless protocol is key for this – just because we’re building with LLMs doesn’t mean we should forget all the hard earned lessons of scaling stuff online.

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