[ondrsh]

Seems nice because it's stateless and thus simpler. But it still enforces lots of structure (static entry points, memory, etc.). So if MCP reminds me of FTP/Telnet (bi-directional, stateful), SLOP reminds me of Gopher.

In any case, protocols need killer applications to take off — for the web this killer app was Mosaic. Right now I don't see any application supporting SLOP. If they are able to come up with one that outperforms other MCP-based LLM applications, they will have a chance.

My personal belief is that the winning protocol will be web-like. Right now there is no such protocol. Maybe I'm wrong, let's see.