What's an #MCP server?

Today #Anthropic dropped V4 of their new model. It marks a pivot in their corp direction. They are yielding the ground for chatbots to #OpenAi and the rest, and instead focusing on infrastructure. Having used paid versions of #ChatGpt and #Claude for #vibecoding it's a smart move as Claude is significantly better than ChatGpt that's been lobotomised for minimum compute burn.

Back to MCP.

LLM --> MCP --> Any app

Eg. You can connect via the MCP to Gmail and issue a prompt "Send email to all the folks in my address list called Karen, Subject: Yo, Body: Your momma!"

Sure, you COULD do it with an API, but now peasants can use it, not just #codemonkey

#Zappier is the first MCP I know. There may be others.

#LLM