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		TeeWEE 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New tools for building agents Correction: the MCP is a protocol for function calling and getting context into a model. It’s can run locally or over a network. It does not specify how “agentic” systems interact with each other. Depending on what you mean there.

cowpig 11 months ago [–]

People are using the word "agentic" to mean this, I think. But yeah it's a dumb, overloaded primarily marketing word. I keep going back and forth on whether I should use the word "agentic"/"agent" at all

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