AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine … but insecure
Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it’s hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable.
About six weeks back MCP – the Model Context Protocol – achieved that status, so I dived in.
It’s simple, clear, and very easy to get started with MCP. Within an hour, I’d coded my first pure Python MCP “server” — a simple tool, integrated into Anthropic’s Claude Desktop, that fetches info about the current cost of electricity at my home.
I’ve grown a bit bored with language models. They talk a lot, but can’t do much about it. Once MCP enters the chat to give them a few tools, their conversation becomes interesting again.
But converse about what? If you can attach any tool to a language model, what tool first?
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