That something can be context if you feed it as input to the LLM and that output will be input, is true for everything in an LLM. So you are not really conveying any meaning with that definition of MCP. MCP is an API layer between LLMs and SaaS applications, designed to provide vendor neutrality for the LLMs. Nothing to do with the context window, which is a specific variable measured in kTokens
It pays to be precise when speaking and studying, and it pays to develop a precise language on nascent technologies when we comunicate about them.
This reminds me when I was studying chemistry and I thought they were pedantic for the way they used the word salt. Or when I studied chess and I called every bishop and knight attack to the f6 pawn the fried liver, instead of the specific sequence of moves that we call the fried liver. Or when I thought that the arm forearm distinction was pedantic in medicine
Science demands precision in communication, feel free to steal a well defined term and use it to mean something else that already has a different sign to denote it. But I'm not playing
It pays to be precise when speaking and studying, and it pays to develop a precise language on nascent technologies when we comunicate about them.
This reminds me when I was studying chemistry and I thought they were pedantic for the way they used the word salt. Or when I studied chess and I called every bishop and knight attack to the f6 pawn the fried liver, instead of the specific sequence of moves that we call the fried liver. Or when I thought that the arm forearm distinction was pedantic in medicine
Science demands precision in communication, feel free to steal a well defined term and use it to mean something else that already has a different sign to denote it. But I'm not playing