Model Context Protocol
also referred to as: mcp · mcps
13 statements across 11 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2025 by Tom Blomfield · said 21 times in 10 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Peter Steinberger (7), Garry Tan (4), Amjad Masad (3), Tom Blomfield (2), Max Junestrand (2), Boris Cherny (1), Andrej Karpathy (1)
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2026 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
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Everything said about Model Context Protocol, oldest first
Apr 25, 2025 negative
May 23, 2025 positive
Jun 21, 2025 positive
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Srinivas: Browser-native agents offer superior reliability over MCP-only approaches
“That's the key advantage of the browser that you do not have if you commit entirely to just the MCP vision. If you commit entirely to the MCP vision, you require these third-party MCP servers to work reliably. Ah, the data that they send you, ah, on, with the …”
Jul 11, 2025 bearish
Aug 26, 2025 bullish
Legora leans heavily into Model Context Protocol for AI agent tool usage
“MCP and the way that you can scale the tool usage of these agents is something that I'm super, you know, keen on and that we're leaning very heavily into because a lot of firms have different needs in terms of how they want to adopt the tools to solve for thei…”
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Nov 28, 2025 bullish
Feb 7, 2026 positive
Steinberger: Converting MCP tools to CLIs scales better than native integrations
“If you need to, you can use MCPs on the fly. You don't have to restart, unlike, unlike Codex or Cloud Code, where you actually have to restart the whole thing. I think it's way more elegant, and also scales way better.”
May 27, 2026 positive
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Franceschi: Non-Technical Teams Want Virtual Coworkers, Not Standalone Chatbots
“Because I think what people really want is in my opinion, is really a way of saying, okay, this is actually a virtual employee almost that has, you know, it's on Slack. It has an email. I can actually invite it to me. You can join a meeting, take notes. And yo…”
Jun 19, 2026
Chou: Ploy will use a CLI rather than MCP for agent integration
“I think we're going to do a CLI with skills. So an MCP would be really good if we had more constrained sort of things. However, I think with the number of things that you can do employ, I think the CLI is going to be the way we do it.”