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A Deep Dive into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling

by ykhli on 3/20/25, 4:49 PM with 4 comments

• by mooreds on 3/20/25, 5:49 PM

  I'm toying with the idea of setting up an MCP for my current company's product, even as a proof of concept. The product is an auth server.

  But I'm not sure that is the right approach. My thesis is that configuring core infrastructure is less of an MCP task than making calls against existing APIs.

  Put another way, would you rather ask Claude to set up an S3 bucket (quick but non-replicable, not version controlled, etc) or ask Claude to help you write Terraform to set up the S3 bucket (which could then be pushed into the normal gitops CI/CD infra management process)?

• by ykhli on 3/20/25, 4:49 PM

  How do MCPs actually work, where are the real use cases, and the challenges today.