> MCP is getting trendy, but a lot of people being drawn in can't find the actual meat of what it is outside of self-referential definitions.
My comment was against the shallow dismissal. Do you think that the negative comments helped anyone locate the meat of what it is? Did they clarify or educate?
Even the infamous Dropbox comment[1] was more constructive. I gently push back in the hope that we can have better discussions here than on other sites.
Saying you "built an MCP server" is literally the same as saying you wrote a method though.
Like you can write a single 20 line method to connect to a MySQL database, add the MCP tool decorator to the method and boom you "built an MCP server".
But no one is posting up to HN saying "Look guys, I wrote a method which connects to a MySQL server", because it takes almost zero expertise and is not novel at all.
I didn't engage further because their comment made it transparent their protest is more about virtue signaling than anything of substance.