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Steinberger: Model Context Protocols are crap and cannot scale like native CLIs
“Because my premise is MCPs are crap. Doesn't really scale. People build like all kinds of weird search things around it. But you know what scales? CLIs. Agents know Unix.”
Dixon: AI Agents Will Conduct Automated Blockchain Micropayments Within Years
“So like watch MCP I would expect would have down the road a payment standard, right? And AI agents. So you imagine a world, which I think we're headed to pretty soon in a couple of years, we have all these different AI agents running around... And pennies gett…”
Swyx: Google is the only viable challenger to Anthropic's MCP
“I would say that if there were any challenger to MCP, it will come from Google because Google has native integrations to Gmail, calendar, YouTube, what have you, they already launched it and it's already first party in there.”
Swyx: Anthropic is building its own MCP registry
“The main challenge that they're going to all going to face is that Anthropic is coming up with their own registry. So Anthropic wants to own this.”
Swyx: MCP multi-agent orchestration will emerge by late 2025 or early 2026
“MCP servers can also be clients. And that's a kind of like a technical thing. But that is effectively what is going to enable servers to then become agents and orchestrate agents fleets of other MCP agents on your behalf. Without you knowing about it. And so t…”
Prince: MCP is leading candidate for agent-to-agent web protocol
“MCP is, is sort of the leading candidate for providing that, but you're right that that's a sort of draft version of that, that specification, and there are a lot of things that have to you know, mature in order for that to be something that is the real kind o…”
Dixon predicts Model Context Protocol will eventually add a payment standard
“MCP, I would expect, would have, down the road, a payment standard, right?”
Swyx: Top Agent Startups Will Use MCP but Won't Depend on It
“The top agents, like the Sierras of the world they still want to own the end to end experience and they will use MCP. But they don't necessarily like their life. They're not really like depending on it. You know, it's not like life or death for them.”