9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Model Context Protocol first-hand: 2 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Has its issues, but offers an agent-native solution.”
mixed · production · cagz · 2026-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yeah had mcp in prod since late 2025. Runs 100s of tools via openrouter... It's damn cool and it works.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · maxrev17 · 2026-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MCP has it's purposes, but it's not really a great tool for software development”
regret · personal · mergesort · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to work around the aforementioned broken factor of MCP we have to sync with our IT team to deploy a configuration change to everyone's machine.”
regret · production · anthuswilliams · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenAI's MCP has been stable across 20+ versions so I prefer it.”
endorse · personal · kordlessagain · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have an agent pick up those comments over mcp so it has context when making corrections.”
neutral · personal · imron · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MCP tools (over 100 so every single thing can be done by an agent)”
neutral · production · atonse · 2026-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The best MCP servers I use day to day (Cloudflare sticks out) do a really good job of exposing only what an agent might actually want”
neutral · personal · nameless912 · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“expose this as an MCP tool. I figured sure, should be quite quick and easy”
neutral · production · jonathanlydall · 2026-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?