> This is what happened with cloud computing. People with expertise wrote software around the software creating machine because just giving naked compute to people en-masse didn’t actually achieve anything valuable. Likewise all of the talk of enterprise agents etc, they’re all custom software that wraps around a reasoning model.

Yeah exactly. Plus, most people don't want to configure MCPs and write skills about how to correctly use CLIs. The type of person who uses Hacker News may do that to customize whatever harness they use.

A sales manager at a sheet metal firm in Wisconsin doesn't. They want AI tools that make their lives easier, but they don't know or care whether that happens with an MCP.

I guess the cloud is a great analogy because that same sales manager may have loved Salesforce because it was always available and updated compared to a manual spreadsheet.