I just saw some job postings asking for 8+ years experience in MCP

Well you see I run dozens of agents at once so my hours of experience accumulate at 10-100x real time. I've got about 200 years of experience in MCP. I accumulated another 3 years of experience while typing this

Any chance they want someone that got the "Microsoft Certified Professional" badge 8 years ago or more?

Not a problem for the 15x programmer.

15x is a rookie multiplier, do you need me to explain how exponential curves work? Within mere months I'll need to start resorting to up-arrow notation to express my value as a developer. And someday I might even start making more money too!

>> >> Heck, even MCP itself isn’t new—the spec was released by Anthropic in November

woosh!

You need 10+ for senior though.

I think you're joking but if not I'd love to see one!

1 year for a human is like 10 in AI-years.

Hi, I work at Stainless. We don’t make money from generating MCP servers. You can do it for free, it’s just a config option in your Typescript SDK config

How does it sell a basic protocol that anyone can use?

Taking this question at face value, because you asked: Stainless generates MCP servers for REST APIs (a ~simple[0] translation of an OpenAPI to a suite of MCP tools).

We actually generate MCP for free (we charge for SDKs), so we're technically not selling, but I don't begrudge GP's comment/sentiment.

[0]https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-co... describes some ways in which this is less simple than you think. The "Handling large APIs dynamically" section near the bottom covers the most salient challenge related to converting large APIs to MCP tools, but there's more work to do.

It's clearly a plot by Big MCP to sell us more MCP. /s