> Were you around for the OOP craze?

In the early 90's I was working for a large ERP company that went all in on OOP and distributed objects.

I was talking to one of the guys from the new team they created to re-write the entire system and had an entertaining conversation:

Tech guy that had drunk the kool-aid (TGTHDTKA): "...and the objects can just automatically interact with each other, like I can drop this person object on the phone object and it just automatically makes the phone call to that person"

Me: "Uh, but you still had to write specific code that causes that interaction to occur, you can't just do that with objects that haven't agreed on how to communicate"

TGTHDTKA: "No, it's all automatic because a person has a phone number and a phone uses a phone number to make calls, so you don't have to code anything special"

etc.

Now the MCP kool-aid is about how we’re finally going to make that work, because the computer on either end can literally read the field descriptions and intuit the interaction. MCP uses LLMs to supply the magic that the WSDL folks never admitted was necessary.