I suspect people will get pretty riled up in the comments. This is fine folks. More people will make their stuff machine-accessible and that's a good thing even if MCP won't last or if it's like VHS -- yes Betamax was better, but VHS pushed home video.

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gonzalohm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's what I don't get with AI, isn't it supposed to make us work less? Why do I need to bother making my websites AI friendly now? I thought that was the point of AI, to take something that's already there and extract valuable information.

Same with coding. Now I don't get to write code but I get to review code written by AI. So much fun...

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otterley 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m all for making data more machine accessible, but it’s not like there was a shortage of ways to implement that. Hell, if most sites implemented OpenAPI, there’d be no problem to solve.

The choice of whether to make one’s service open to mechanical use is a business decision. Imagine a world in which YouTube could easily be accessed by scripts. Google does not want this; they want quite the opposite.

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foota an hour ago | parent [-]

Ah yes, open API, famously a user accessible means of accessing a website.

	▲	otterley an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We’re talking about agents here. (These are, after all, what MCP servers are meant to serve to.) Thus we’re talking about the need for services to be efficiently agent (computer) accessible, not efficiently end-user accessible.