a lot of folks are assuming the primary users of mcp are the end users connecting their claude/vscode/etc to whatever saas platform they’re working on. While this is a huge benefit and super cool to use, imo the main benefit is for things like giving complex tool access to centralized agents. Where the mcp servers allow you to build agents that have the tools to do a sort of “custom deep research.” - HN

MCP brings nothing to the table that I could not do with a “proper” API using completely standard tooling.