That was exactly my thought when I saw MCP: like we know so much about creating protocols but get a bunch of people together with no experience and that’s what you get.

Reminds me a lot of Microsoft’s WS-disaster of the early 2000s except the latter was thought through a little better.

To be fair a while back I did design an API for a general purpose model trainer which was absolutely atrocious for a few reasons, my own ignorance was a factor but the problem of accommodating everything from “model that can be trained in 30 seconds on a small machine” to “model that takes 30 days of training on a cluster” problematized it.

It would have made so much more sense to build a standard for documenting ordinary API endpoints and CLIs.