The ninja party was not even great.

I guess I prefer to look at empirical evidence over feelings and arbitrary statements. AI ceos are notoriously full of crap and make statements with perverse financial incentives.

Apple recently published a paper that seems to disagree and plainly states it's just pattern matching along with tests to prove it.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

That's really not true. Context is one strategy to keep a models output constrained, and tool calling allows dynamic updates to context. Mcp is a convenience layer around tool calls and the systems they integrate with

I think you are drawing the wrong conclusion - users cannot be mindful of clicks, we should live in a world where click is assumed and go from there.