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Don't over-egg the pudding: the MCP and its server
Description
In an era where everything even slightly related to generative AI is considered the new meta, it is hard to keep track of the technical increments that are actually useful to our work and domains. The announcement of the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic has generated a lot of buzz and is a good attempt to become the leader among the various LLM providers. This talk will take a stab at creating an overview and an honest take on what the MCP server will bring us and what it feels like to develop one for Mollie, trying to combine all emotions and experiences together to answer the question of whether it really lives up to the promise. Defying established presentation best practices, I will try to live-code a new MCP server providing functionality for a to-be-chosen service.