GoKawiilDeveloper argues MCP protocol has outlived its usefulness as LLMs advance
A developer who attended an MCP-focused industry event says the Model Context Protocol, released by Anthropic in November 2024 and later handed to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, was designed for weaker, less agentic models than exist today. As adoption exploded, users began overloading context windows by connecting many MCP servers at once, prompting platforms like Composio, MintMCP, and Pipedream to build workaround tools that centralize credentials and trim tool lists.
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The critique suggests the AI tooling ecosystem may be over-investing in infrastructure built around assumptions that newer, more capable models no longer need, potentially wasting engineering effort on patches for a protocol that could soon be obsolete. It also raises questions about whether standards bodies and vendors can adapt quickly enough as underlying model capabilities evolve faster than the protocols meant to support them.
- MCP was created in late 2024 for less capable, less agentic AI models.
- Rapid adoption led to context bloat from too many connected MCP servers.
- Companies like Composio and Pipedream built workarounds, but the author sees these as short-term fixes.
Source: maharship.com, 2026-09-20
Published there as: “MCP was always a bad idea?”
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