AI & MCP 26 JUNE
MCP in 2026: the protocol grew up
Eighteen months of spec revisions turned a clever stdio hack into stateless, OAuth-aligned infrastructure you can actually put behind a load balancer.
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Eighteen months of spec revisions turned a clever stdio hack into stateless, OAuth-aligned infrastructure you can actually put behind a load balancer.
6 min readMCP hardens into real infrastructure, AI coding moves onto the meter, and venture capital quietly abandons the wrapper layer.
4 min readThe MCP reference servers were never meant for production — here is what you actually have to build before a tool call can touch real data.
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