Weekly Digest 25 JUNE
The Dispatch Weekly: MCP momentum, lean infra, and the agent shakeout
MCP hardens into real infrastructure, AI coding moves onto the meter, and venture capital quietly abandons the wrapper layer.
4 min readagents
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AI & MCP 19 JUNE
MCP vs raw tool-calling: when the protocol earns its keep
Both let a model act on the world — but one is a wire format and the other is an integration contract, and conflating them costs you.
6 min read AI & MCP 12 JUNE
Context engineering ate prompt engineering
The job stopped being how you phrase the request and became what you let into the window — and the token budget is now the real design surface.
6 min read