Is MCP Actually Broken? The Truth About AI Agent Data Access [Ft. Gil Feig, Merge]
Most teams building AI agents are blaming MCP when their integrations fall flat. Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, says that's the wrong diagnosis entirely — and he built the infrastructure layer that connects agents to enterprise systems to prove it.
Gil makes the case that MCP is a thin wrapper around API endpoints, and the actual failure point is the access pattern underneath it. He lays out a clear framework for when synced-and-stored data is required versus when live connectors are sufficient, explains why the "talk to your data" promise keeps breaking in practice, and shares how…
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