The Flexibility of MCP vs. Deterministic APIs with Jessica Kerr

Making changes to a deterministic API is a big pain. MCP is much more flexible. As Jessica Kerr points out, “Most of what the MCP sends is text that’s going to be interpreted by an LLM. And if that text looks completely different than what it looked like yesterday, that LLM does not care.” #shorts Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social