← All IntelClip / OtherStateless MCP lowers deployment cost and enables strict tool control
From Did Anthropic finally fix MCP? · ≈11:23
“But now that these are stateless, it's way easier to get it working, to get it shipped, to get it integrated, and to scale it if it does end up being used heavily, and to spend $0 if it's not used at all.”
“You can throw this on any Lambda or Cloudflare worker or anything now trivially and it's so much better.”
“And in a world where agents are doing more and more unsafe things, MCP as a way to be really strict about what agents can do is sensical because again, if you give it a CLI, the agent can do pretty much anything.”
“But if you give it a spec out set of endpoints effectively that are self-describing in a way the agent can use, then it can only do the things that those endpoints provide.”
What’s in it
- Explains why stateless MCP servers are cheap and trivial to ship
- Shows how serverless deploys like Lambda make agent tools scale for $0
- Argues MCP endpoints keep agents safely boxed in vs raw CLI access
Clip transcript
has a version that feels good to release. Huge. Then you end up with a bloated spec that requires you to have an expensive infrastructure to put it out, the likelihood you bother putting the thing out goes down massively. But now that these are stateless, it's way easier to get it working, to get it shipped, to get it integrated, and to scale it if it does end up being used heavily, and to spend $0 if it's not used at all. You can throw this on any Lambda or Cloudflare worker or anything now trivially and it's so much better. And in a world where agents are doing more and more unsafe things, MCP as a way to be really strict about what agents can do is sensical because again, if you give it a CLI, the agent can do pretty much anything. But if you give it a spec out set of endpoints effectively that are self-describing in a way the agent can use, then it can only do the things that those endpoints provide. Simon's
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