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MCP is gonna hurt

2025-08-13 17:29:16.339613+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

A lot of observation that being old in software development means shaking your head sadly as people recreate the same mistakes over and over again, for fucking decades.

Julien Simon: Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises

In fact, in reading through the list of complaints here, I'm reminded of my old adage that XML was the subset of SGML that Microsoft's developers could understand, that over and over we let people who aren't willing to understand the system create the new systems, they introduce unnecessary complexity and build things that are worse than what they were supposed to fix.

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