Underwhelming MCP vs Hype
As I see the current state of hype, the experience is underwhelming:
Confusing targeting — developers and non devs both.
For devs — it’s straightforward coding agent basically just llm.txt , so why would I use MCP isn’t clear.
For non devs — It’s like tools that can be published by anyone and some setup to add config etc. But the same stuff has been tried by ChatGPT GPTs as well last year where anyone can publish their tools as GPTs, which in my experience didn’t work well.
There’s isn’t a good client so far and the clients UIs not being open source makes the experience limited as in our case, no client natively support video upload and playback.
Installing MCPs on local machines can have setup issues later with larger MCPs.
I feel the hype isn’t organic and fuelled by Anthropic. I was expecting MCP ( being a protocol ) to have deeper developer value for agentic workflows and communication standards then just a wrapper over docker and config files.
Let’s imagine a world with lots of MCPs — how would I choose which one to install and why, how would it rank similar servers? Are they imagining it like a ecosystem like App store where my main client doesn’t change but I am able to achieve any tasks that I do with a SaaS product.
We tried a simple task — "take the latest video on Gdrive and give me a summary" For this the steps were not easy:
Go through Gdrive MCP and setup documentation — Gdrive MCP has 11 step setup process.
VideoDB MCP has 1 step setup process.
Overall 12, 13 step to do a basic task.