> Also MCP is very obviously dead...

Couldn't have been more wrong. MCP despite its manageable downsides is leagues ahead of anything else in many ways.

The fact that SoTA models are trained to handle MCP should be hint enough to the observant.

I probably build one MCP tool per week at work.

And every project I work on gets its own MCP tool too. It's invaluable to have specialized per-project tooling instead of a bunch of heterogeneous scripts+glue+prayer.

Anything specialized goes into an MCP.