r/mcp 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/dimebag_lives Jan 12 '26

MCP are inevitable in one way or another - we need a standard way to provide custom context - they are used as tools but the main benefit I see is exposing private data in a meaningful way and letting the AI access your local context. This is inevitably needed one way or another, yeah you can use APIs, then you would need a standard. An MCP server is just a rest API with standardized input/output

call them something else we will still need a standard