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meander_water on Aug 7, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: An LLM does not need to understand MCP

I think you're mixing up tool calling and structured outputs.

You can have both of those or either without MCP.

MCP just standardizes the tool calling and only makes sense if you want to share your tools across the org. I wouldn't use it for simple functions like getting current date for e.g.

zozbot234 on Aug 7, 2025 [–]

You need structured inputs too or you wouldn't know how to constrain/"structure" the output to begin with.

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