@smthomas3: almost every company I talk to is building an mcp server if they have multiple eng teams this checks out
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According to @smthomas3, most companies with multiple engineering teams are building MCP servers, referencing a HN discussion on whether MCP is dead and input from OpenAI's @mxstbr.
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almost every company I talk to is building an mcp server if they have multiple eng teams
this checks out
Dave Yen (@davecyen): Good thread on HN this morning on whether MCP is dead.
Here’s the view from @mxstbr who leads this at OpenAI
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