I think MCP should not the main discussion point -- it certainly is the acronym that travels the world, but the real underlying features to track the sentiment of are "tools."

You can provide JSON schemas to LLMs about functions it can call, and they're trained to request executions. That's the game changing technology. That's the future here.

That's what makes claude code actually work, that's what makes a good chatbot useful, and that's what makes "AI" the most interesting right now.

MCP is many things, but one very good thing is that it's merely a way to bring tools to your client easily -- and gate data by the correct level of authorization, etc.

That is useful. We will likely have that in some form forever on. It may not be called MCP though.