MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
Why it matters
Stateless MCPThe Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.Full definition → changes how engineers write, host, and scale MCP servers, so anyone shipping one needs to know the spec moved.
Key quotes
“By fixing the standard, they ruined the nature of the standard.”
Theo Browne
“MCP go from a worse version of a CLI to a potentially actually useful integration to have in our tools”
Theo Browne
“Kind of crazy that this super fancy spec and protocol got replaced by a markdown file as many things do nowadays”
Theo Browne
“if you give it a CLI, the agent can do pretty much anything”
Theo Browne
“I can't believe I'm excited to go try out MCP again, but I really am.”
