Lowering the bar to integrate and communicate is what has historically allowed technology to reach critical mass and enabled adoption. MCP is an evolution in that respect and shouldn’t be disregarded.
We had a non technical team member write an agent to clean up a file share. There are hundreds of programming languages, libraries, and apis that enabled that before MCP but now people don’t even have to think about it. Is it performant no, is it the “best” implementation absolutely not. Did it create enormous value in a novel way that was not possible with the resources, time, technology we had before 100%. And that’s the point.
>non technical team member write an agent to clean up a file share
This has to be BS(or you think its true) unless it was like 1000 files. In my entire career I've seen countless crazy file shares that are barely functional chaos. In nearly ever single "cleanup" attempt I've tried to get literally ANYONE from the relevant department to help with little success. That is just for ME to do the work FOR THEM. I just need context from them. I've on countless occasion had to go to senior management to force someone to simply sit with me for an hour to go over the schema they want to try to implement. SO I CAN DO IT FOR THEM and they don't want to do it and literally seemed incapable of doing so when forced to. COUNTLESS Times. This is how I know AI is being shilled HARD.
If this is true then I bet you anything in about 3-6 months you guys are going to be recovering this file system from backups. There is absolutely no way it was done correctly and no one has bothered to notice yet. I'll accept your downvote for now.
Cleaning up a file share is 50% politics, 20% updating procedures, 20% training and 10% technical. I've seen companies go code red and practically grind to a halt over a months long planned file share change. I've seen them rolled back after months of work. I've seen this fracture the files shares into insane duplication(or more) because despite the fact it was coordinated, senior managers did not as much as inform their department(but attended meetings and signed off on things) and now its too late to go back because some departments converted and some did not. I've seen helpdesk staff go home "sick" because they could not take the volume of calls and abuse from angry staff afterwards.
Yes I have trauma on this subject. I will walk out of a job before ever doing a file share reorg again.
We had a non technical team member write an agent to clean up a file share. There are hundreds of programming languages, libraries, and apis that enabled that before MCP but now people don’t even have to think about it. Is it performant no, is it the “best” implementation absolutely not. Did it create enormous value in a novel way that was not possible with the resources, time, technology we had before 100%. And that’s the point.