Yes. Pieces of all of those things surround us now. And where we are wrt locking and interop is far beyond where we were when each of those fads happened.
Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech. But I’m betting shoveling data at llm agents isn’t. The benefits are too high for companies to allow vendors to lock the data away from them.
> Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech. But I’m betting shoveling data at llm agents isn’t.
I'd bet that while "shoveling data at llm agents" might not be a fad, sometime fairly soon doing so for free while someone else's VC money picks up the planet destroying data center costs will stop being a thing. Imagine if every PHP or Ruby on Rails, or Python/Django site had started out and locked themselves into a free tier Oracle database, then one day Oracle's licensing lawyers started showing up to charge people for their WordPress blog.
I know we're all just soaked by a wave of hype right now but I think MCP will go the way of other "but it works" tech, like zip files, RSS and shell scripts.
Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech. But I’m betting shoveling data at llm agents isn’t. The benefits are too high for companies to allow vendors to lock the data away from them.