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MCP Is The Plug. You Still Need The Outlet Cover.

MCP — Model Context Protocol — has gone from a curiosity to enterprise infrastructure in less than a year. Last Friday, the Linux Foundation made it official, formalizing MCP under its new Agentic AI Foundation alongside production integrations from SUSE, AWS, and Fujitsu. Translation: it is now the standard your engineers are building on.

In this episode, Stephen Forte explains:

What MCP actually is — the USB-for-AI analogy, in plain language, no developer experience required

Why it became default — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cursor, LangChain, LiteLLM, IBM LangFlow all support it

Why it…

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