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There appears to be a lot of confusion in the comments around what the MCP is and how it is different API.

I've done a deep dive here before.

Hope this clears it up: https://glama.ai/blog/2025-06-06-mcp-vs-api





That "deep dive" is an apples-to-oranges comparison. MCP is also a "HTTP API" that you so criticize.

You also somehow consistently think LLM making tool calls against an OpenAPI spec would result in hallucination, while tool calls are somehow magically exempt from such.

All of this writing sounds like you picked a conclusion and then tried to justify it.

There's no reason an "Agentic OpenAPI" marked as such in a header wouldn't be just as good as MCP and it would save a ton of engineering effort.


Thanks.

The video link seems to be missing in the section: Bonus: MCP vs API video




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