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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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 read AI & MCP 23 JUNE
Shipping production MCP servers without the footguns
The MCP reference servers were never meant for production — here is what you actually have to build before a tool call can touch real data.
6 min read 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 16 JUNE
The MCP servers worth your stdio
A working engineer's survey of the mid-2026 MCP server ecosystem — the seven that ship in the reference repo, the third-party ones that earned their keep, and how to tell maintained from abandoned.
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.
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