From the course: Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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How it all started
From the course: Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP)
How it all started
- [Instructor] MCP was created at Anthropic by David Soria Parra and Justin Spahr-Summers. Now, David's focus was mostly around working on internal developer tooling, but he quickly got frustrated because he was stuck between two imperfect options. Claude's desktop app, which is a product from Anthropic, had this amazing artifacts feature where you could just describe what you wanted and it would create apps or visualizations for you, but that was pretty much all it could do. You couldn't extend it or add new features. And then there was his IDE, which is basically the main workspace that programmers used to write code. Now, the IDE could do tons of stuff, like accessing files and connecting to other systems, but it didn't have anything like that cool artifacts feature, where you could just tell it what you wanted and have it built for you. He found himself constantly copying and pasting things back and forth between Claude desktop and the IDE. This frustration led him to think about…
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