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So it’s take 2 for Open AI’s App Store moment. But this time surfing Anthropic’s MCP wave. Smart interop.. or just chasing the cool kids?

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mcp was a dud

What is the superior way for an LLM to interact with your product?

llm can call my existing apis fine. curious what kind of problems you are running to with your existing apis?

I want LLM chat integration with my product.

So far, it seems that if you give an LLM a few tools to create projects and other entities, they seem to be very good at using them. The user gets the option of chat driven ui for our app, with not that much work for limited features.

Currently building internal MCP servers to make that easy. But I can imagine having a public one in the future.

Tool calling is one of at least 5 core features of MCP

ok but not sure why i need to build an mcp for my product if llms can already call my existing apis ?

If you are not sure, you don't need it. If you get to understand the usefulness of MCP, then you might find a use for it.

well i was responding to person who was asking me "what a better way over mcp" to interact with your product. looks like you inserted yourself with your usual one line non sequiturs. BOT.

Person you were responding to here. You do have a solid point/question. To be completely honest: my original thinking was that for once, I am going to go with the flow on something like this. I often fight inertia, but this felt like a bad thing to do it on.

Now, I realize that the best argument for MCP vs function calls in my case, is that I want to allow external products/agents/chatbots to interface with my app. MCP is that standard. I will implement very carefully, but that's what I need to do.

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