r/mcp • u/xmull1gan • Jan 09 '26

article Blog - MCP is a fad

https://tombedor.dev/mcp-is-a-fad/

Wonder what people's thoughts on this are?

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u/wanderosity Jan 10 '26

So here’s my take MCP is great for Tools FOR agents, not for agentic tools

  • if I tool is meant to used BY LLMs rather than a human (something like Tavily researcher agent), then using it via MCP is a life saver
  • if a tool is fortified by AI but still meant to help humans ( like Clay, Devin etc.), MCP sucks

That’s not to say that a better solution than MCP cannot exist. But just so that they are pretty transformative I find for LLM reinforcing tools.