they invented MCP, Skills, made these standards open so anyone could build the harness around them.

MCP is barely an invention. It's a fuzzy spec detailing a pretty obvious design pattern.

I'm trying to think of a standard this doesn't apply to

LLM is barely an invention. It's an auto complete we had years before.

Also I'm a little bitter, prior to this I never had trouble getting my username on websites. No one used this combination of 4 letters for godamn anything.

All gone, for shitty typeahead

damn hipsters.

LLM is not comparable to MCP or skills. There's no way I could've come up with LLMs on my own. Anyway Claude Code is the best.

this pre-IPO is gonna be incredible

It's going to be dramatic - it's unclear how much of their DAUs are organic and how much is through their PE usage deals. There's a large amount of organic usage certainly, it's a useful tool, but there are quite a few of the tell tale signs that they have an internal number they want their user acquisition to be at and they're failing to meet that through organic growth.

I have this image in mind [1] - I wonder how it shifted over time.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/3zBZ27I

To be fair, MCP and Skills do not have any source code. It is fundamentally impossible to release either standard without making it open.