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Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train


While everybody talks about AI, I have plenty of reasons to ignore the bubble.

Big names like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are spending tens of billions of dollars every few months just to buy the graphic cards needed to train these models. So Anthropic released something called the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is basically just a new way of writing an API doc—except this time, it’s for chatbots, not human developers. But here’s the real issue: if agents just use third-party tools to do the actual work—like translation, calculation or retriving information—why are these companies spending so much time and money training massive language models?

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