Model Context Protocol
also referred to as: mcp · mcps
includes Model Context Protocol Inspector
83 statements across 32 episodes · 41 bullish · 19 bearish · 37 people on the record · first statement Dec 25, 2024 by Graham Neubig · said 492 times in 54 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 70 mentions in 16 episodes 4 per episode
- Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 418 mentions in 37 episodes 11 per episode
- One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra
- The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
Everything said about Model Context Protocol, oldest first
Dec 25, 2024 negative
Neubig: Anthropic's MCP Duplicates Existing APIs With Little Added Value
“We already have an API for GitHub. So why do we need an MCP for GitHub, right? You know, like GitHub has an API. The GitHub API is evolving. We can look up the GitHub API documentation. So it seems like kind of duplicated a little bit. And also they have a set…”
Feb 5, 2025 bullish
Feb 28, 2025 bullish
Klein: Consumer AI agents and tools like Anthropic MCP will run locally
“There's a case where a lot of people are going desktop first for, you know, consumer use. And I think Claude is doing a lot of this where I expect to see, you know, MCP is really oriented around the Claude desktop app for a reason, right? Like I think a lot of…”
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Kozlov: Bullish on Model Context Protocol (MCP) as key to useful agents
“I'm very bullish on MCP. I'm really, really excited about it, but I think funnily enough, the term MCP is the thing that scares the normies away because it sounds so deeply technical, even though really it's the part that I think is going to Make agents intere…”
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Kozlov: Protocols like MCP will eventually replace browser-based AI agents
“Especially with people building agents, I think it's kind of funny because it's a bit, to me, the anthropomorphification of agents, where it's like, we humans use browsers, so my agent is going to use a browser, but eventually I think that will get replaced wi…”
Mar 28, 2025 bullish
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Shah: MCP provides distinct value above OpenAPI for LLM workflows
“I do think MCP as a pro adds value above open API. It's yeah, just because it solves this particular thing. And if we had come to the world, which we have, like, it's like, Hey, we already have open API. It's like, if that were good enough for the universe wou…”
Apr 2, 2025 positive
Augment Code supports MCP alongside native GitHub, Linear, and Notion integrations
“Within augment, we have we have both MCP support for complete extensibility of tools, but we, we've also built in a few first party integrations and serve them as tools to the agent. So we have GitHub linear notion that, that we use internally, and then we hav…”
Apr 24, 2025 positive
Apr 24, 2025 bearish
May 7, 2025 positive
Scandurra: Zed supports installing MCP servers via binaries or its extension store
“Like one is you can sort of change your configuration setting point, you know, point to an MCP binary
and you know, Zed just runs that binary. That's one path. The other path that I'm also really excited about is, like, going through our extension store.”
May 7, 2025 neutral
Jul 16, 2025 neutral
Jul 16, 2025 bullish
Jul 16, 2025 positive
Rizwan: MCP turns Cline into a general-purpose 'everything agent'
“Even though it's a VS Code extension and a coding agent, MCP kind of lets it function as this everything agent where it can connect to, you know, whatever services and things like that. And that's really a side effect of having very general prompts just in the…”
Jul 16, 2025 bearish
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Ganatra: MCP Lacks Client Post-Processing for Long Context Responses
“MCP let's just say you have a tool that has really long context, a really long sort of response. Currently, if you use MCP for those kinds of tools, it ends up sort of messing up, right? Because let's say I'm trying to fetch like a hundred emails on Gmail and …”
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Ganatra: Server-Controlled Schemas in MCP Complicate Client-Side Customization
“Some of the other things that we have observed is like, hey, maybe I want to sort of change the tool descriptions, but like in MCP, the tool descriptions are controlled by the server itself. And so essentially for me as a developer who's sort of using an MCP, …”
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Sep 25, 2025 bearish
Ball: Complex sub-agent workflows will result in user hangovers
“A lot of the features what we see, you know, where people build like elaborate workflows, like I have my custom slash commands and they trigger custom Custom sub-agents and they in turn trigger custom MCP tool calls behind which again another model is doing in…”
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Slack: MCP as user-facing tech creates high token costs and bad UX
“As a user facing technology, it is such a common failure mode where a user will go and add in some MCP servers. Auth is a huge pain, but let's say they get over that hurdle. Then they have, I don't know, 50 tools exposed that often are too low level granularit…”
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Krieger: AI Agents Must Support Both MCP and Visual Computer Use
“And that thing's never gonna have an MCP around it. Like, it's just like, who knows if the company created is even around much less like ready to sort of expose their kind of underlying constructs as API. So I think you will need to be able to do both.”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Sands: Stripe built central MCP server 'Tool Shed' for internal AI tooling
“So we've actually been leaning in really hard on, we call it tool shed, but it's like a, it's like an internal like MCP server that basically has access to like all the Stripe tools. And, you know, what I like about that is like, and it's managed centrally, li…”
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
MCP is the primary method enterprise customers use to add agent context
“The MCP is huge, it seems like. It is the way that a lot of the, especially when it comes to, like, digital transformation or some of our enterprise customers, it's where they're going to be able to be at, or where they are able to add context.”
Nov 10, 2025 positive
GitHub announces custom agent support with prompts and MCPs in Agent HQ
“In addition to that, we also have custom agents that we announced today, too. So, like, you can work with prompts and stuff within your agent HQ and customize these agents for different tasks, and those can have MCPs and such.”
Nov 14, 2025 bullish
Nov 19, 2025 positive
Swyx: MCP specification includes features beyond simple API wrappers
“I will defend MCP in the sense that, like, there actually are other parts of the spec that are not just API wrappers, but people just comparatively don't use them as much, but I think it's a little unfair to MCP, the whole protocol”
Nov 19, 2025 negative
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Yegge: Agents handle MCP better by writing code than direct tool calls
“The agents can't call MCP very effectively because they don't have any training on tool calls, but they have plenty of training on writing code, so you tell them don't call the tool, write code to call the tool, and they do way better with it, right?”
Dec 28, 2025 negative
Making return streams optional in Streamable HTTP was an MCP design mistake
“We got wrong that. We made a lot of things optional for the clients to do. Like you can, the client can connect and open this return stream from the server, but it doesn't have to. And the reality is, is no client does it because it's optional. And so a lot of…”
Dec 28, 2025 negative
Passing raw OpenAPI specifications directly to LLMs bloats context and causes confusion
“If you put that into a model, like you will have a lot of bloat there too, right? Actually way worse. And funny enough, when people try to like map one to one things, often the model gets slightly confused because You have like search by name, search by ID, se…”
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
Dec 28, 2025 negative
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Anthropic remains fully committed to MCP following its foundation donation
“Like the commitment of Anthropic is the same, right? I'm still, We still have the same people I'm helping with the SDKs. We're still super committed in our products to MCP. I'm still the lead core maintainer. Nothing has actually changed.”
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
Block abandoned Goose's proprietary plugin ecosystem in favor of adopting MCP
“We had a version of Goose that was still, you can go check the GitHub history. It was there a little bit before MCP came out, and we were sitting there with like a plugin ecosystem who were like, this is awful. Like what, like, why would you, why would anyone?…”
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Dec 28, 2025
MCP is governed by a core maintainer group of eight people
“And so that's why we run MCP as like a really traditional open source project with like a core maintainer group of like eight people that basically decide everything. And then like input from everybody else. Like we get input and people can make suggestions an…”
Dec 28, 2025 negative
Other agent protocols currently lack the adoption required for AAIF inclusion
“At least on the protocol side, like a defector standards. And I don't think any of the other protocols, it feels like they're not just there yet, but of course, if they get there, then we are like super open as long as they're like complementary to what's, wha…”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Anthropic added long-running tasks to MCP for deep research and communication
“We just launched like in our end of like November, then the recent iteration of the protocol, finally, like the next bigger improvement to the protocol, which is like long running tasks to really allow for like, you know, deep research type of task and like, y…”
Dec 28, 2025
Anthropic created MCP so rapidly expanding internal teams could build integrations independently
“MCP before we even open source it was born of the idea of like, I'm in a company that is growing crazy. I'm in the development side of things, development tooling side of things. I will grow slower than the rest. How can I build something that they can all bui…”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Block's Goose was the first open-source agent to integrate MCP
“Goose was the first open source agent interface or agent that reached out to us and worked with us to integrate MCP. And I think Rad is actually like technically the first non-anthropic contributor to MCP ever on like day two or something like that, like very,…”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
MCP must enable inherently stateful agents with long-term client-server communication
“MCP should also enable agents, and agents are inherently somewhat stateful, and there's some form of, like, long-term communication going between, like, the client and the server, and so we always looked for something like that.”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
Dec 28, 2025 bullish
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Skills supply vertical domain expertise while MCP provides horizontal system connectivity
“What skills do, they like, they give you the domain knowledge for like a specific Set of tasks, like how you are, how you behave, how should the model behave as a data scientist, or how should the model this behave as an accountant or whatever. But MCP gives y…”
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
MCP decoupled authentication from resource servers to support enterprise identity providers
“In the first iteration of our authentication respect, we combined them together into the MCP server... And if you combine these into the same server, you just can't do this anymore. And so all we needed to do is like, okay, we are a resource server. The MCP se…”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Bloomberg is heading a financial services interest group for MCP standardization
“And so now that's when we, like, started, like, creating this financial services interest group that Bloomberg is heading up to, like, figure out, like, what are some of the things that you, like, a client must do if it wants to speak to our financial services…”
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
Dec 28, 2025 bullish
Zemlin: MCP and AAIF adoption will move ten times faster than Kubernetes
“I think there's a somewhat similar situation here with the caveat of saying, like, 10 times faster. Like, just day one, so much momentum around MCP. So much interest in this. And then also, 10 years of CNCF to sort of teach the developer community and the vend…”
Dec 28, 2025 bullish
Altman, Nadella, and Pichai publicly committed to adopting MCP around April
“And then like, you had this like inflection point around April with like Sam Altman and Satya and Sundar and all posting about like MCP and that they're going to adopt MCP at Microsoft, at Google. At OpenAI and that was really like the big inflection point.”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Next MCP update will replace polling with server event callbacks and webhooks
“And then you can make an optimization, which we're going to do in the next round, which we didn't get around is like, okay, instead of having to pull every minute or hour or whatever you interval you choose, the server can call us events. Call you like, feel l…”
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
Regulated MCP clients may require formal certification and signatures within a year
“You might end up in a world really a year from now. There might be clients that have like certifications that they are in Amplik and get like a signature that they are like financial services, MCP clients, and they can prove it for the server. And only then th…”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
MCP strictly handles obtaining context, leaving selection and retention to applications
“And I think MCP I always see is like back to like, it's an application layer protocol. That's just how you obtain the context, how you select the context that the problem for the application. And that's the problem all the agent applications will have at the e…”
Dec 28, 2025 bullish
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Nina Lopatina: Contextual AI shifts from MCP to direct API calls
“And I think for us, for me personally, like in my dynamic agent configs, I'm moving more toward API calls. And something a little bit more once I kind of maybe been able to prototype with an MCP server and figure out how I'm going to use this I think then you …”
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Jan 9, 2026 bearish
Jan 17, 2026 positive
Jan 17, 2026 neutral
Mar 6, 2026 positive
Mar 17, 2026 negative
Rieseberg: Users reject MCP connectors due to auth friction and limitations
“You're noticing that a lot of people, especially as the models get better, a lot of people throw up their hands when it comes to MCP connectors and they say, I'm not gonna go through like 25 MCP connectors, click auth everywhere, and then like half of them don…”
Apr 7, 2026 bearish
Lopopolo: Bearish on MCP due to forced token injection and compaction issues
“MCPs I'm pretty bearish on because the harness forcibly injects all those tokens in the context and I don't really get a say over it. They mess with auto compaction. The agent can forget how to use the tool. There's probably only like, what, three calls in Pla…”
Apr 15, 2026 positive
MCP Provides a Safer Permission Model Than CLIs by Preventing Token Exfiltration
“MCP inherently has a really strong permission model. Like, all you can do is call the tools. A CLI is a little bit murkier. It's like, can I access the API token? Are you, like, properly sort of, like, re-encrypting the token so it can't, like, exfiltrate it? …”
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Notion Bypasses Third-Party MCP Search to Maintain Internal Quality Control
“There are a lot of things where we choose not to use MCP because we want to add more high touch to quality. I think search and agentic find is like the largest instance of that, where we have slack and linear and JIRA search and notion that is not using necess…”
Apr 15, 2026 bullish
Executing Deterministic Code via CLI Avoids Recurring LLM Token Fees From MCP
“And so if we can have our agents properly execute code that calls on CLI deterministically, it's a one time cost, right? Versus constantly having a language model integrate with an MCP over and over and over and paying those like repeated token fees.”
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Apr 18, 2026 positive
May 28, 2026 neutral
Yan: Practical multi-agent setups require isolated sandboxes without shared machines
“We've actually given Devon an MCP so they can just go arbitrarily message other Devons and create new Devons, et cetera. But I guess like it somehow creates like a really chaotic world in that sense. And so we, we've still found that most practical use on a da…”
May 28, 2026 negative
Yan: Getting agent integrations right often requires bespoke builds over MCP
“The thing we found is, so like MCPs obviously it has been like, it's like really big explosion of, oh, you can go like integrate it with all these different things. But to actually get the integration right and get the right experience, oftentimes we found tha…”
Jul 22, 2026 negative