MCP: The Protocol That Teaches AI to Wipe Its Own Ass
🧠From Dumb Bots to Slightly Less Dumb Bots So here we are again. Another week, another acronym. This time it’s MCP—the Model Context Protocol . You know, the thing that promises to turn your chatbot from a stuttering autocomplete engine into an “agent.” That’s right— an agent , like it’s working undercover in your operating system trying to liberate your calendar from tyranny. But hold up—what does this thing actually do ? It lets Large Language Models use tools . Big whoop, right? Except it actually matters. Because until now, your AI couldn’t do jack without you babysitting it like a toddler with a blowtorch. Now it can “reason” about tools, pick the right one, call it, and even not explode everything in the process. MCP is what happens when a protocol grows a spine and tells REST to take a hike. 🧰 REST, gRPC, JSON-RPC... Meet the Grown-Up in the Room Let’s get this straight: REST is for humans. URLs, verbs, status codes—it’s like sending a love letter in Morse code. gRPC? Over-en...