Our take on MCP Protocol Declared Dead, Tech Industry Already Crowning Its Successor
MCP, the so-called USB-C of AI ecosystems, just got unceremoniously unplugged by engineers who measured its context consumption and found it eats tokens like a snack-addicted intern.
The real kicker? This eulogy comes just as Claude Code rolled out a patch to fix the worst of it, proving that in tech, death is often just a temporary inconvenience. Meanwhile, the proposed alternatives—CLI and Skills—are essentially command-line nostalgia repackaged as innovation, because nothing says progress like telling LLMs to just use curl like the rest of us.
In a world where every SaaS tool now touts "MCP supported" on its landing page like a participation trophy, we're reminded that hype cycles are eternal, but context windows are finite. RIP MCP, you'll be missed by the marketing teams who needed a new buzzword.