🔧 MCP went from "cool spec" to "you probably need this" in about a year

I've been tracking the Model Context Protocol since Anthropic dropped it in late 2024. At first it felt like another standards proposal that would sit in a GitHub repo and collect dust. That didn't happen.

In the last year, OpenAI adopted it. Google adopted it. Microsoft, Amazon, Cursor, Replit, Sourcegraph, basically every tool that touches LLMs...