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Developer 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.