This might be the most common MCP antipattern I see, and it's not helped by a bevy of startups and products offering to automate this process for you. Of course, it's tempting: APIs are APIs after all, right? Wrong.
Have you ever wondered about where MCP came from, what inspired it, and why it's built the way it is? Today, we will get into a time machine and travel all the way back to 2024, when an Anthropic engineer was getting annoyed at having to constantly switch
GPT-5 was released today and the response was...mixed. In typical fashion, it was hyped up very hard on X: The Everything App and LinkedIn, but the release felt more like the iPhone 14 than the iPhone 3G. It did give us some really well done charts, though. Fun with
Let's kick off this newsletter with a bang and/or announcement: I’m writing a full-length book for O’Reilly Media! The title is AI Agents with MCP and it is currently in early release for subscribers to O’Reilly’s learning platform. It is scheduled for release
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