MCP is the USB-C of AI tools, and most devs are still using their AI assistant like it is 2023
A quiet protocol shift is happening in AI tooling. Most devs missed it. Why MCP matters, the high-profile breaches that should have your attention, and the rubric I run before installing any new server.
Building mcp-pool: one week, eleven MCP servers, one shared OAuth library
How a single Stripe MCP server turned into a monorepo of eleven, and why half the engineering effort went into not writing the same OAuth flow six times.