Why MCPs Are About to Change Everything (And Why You Should Care)

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Here's something wild: By February 2025, there were over 1,000 community-built MCP servers available. The official MCP TypeScript SDK is showing around 700K weekly downloads from npm.

Six months ago, most developers had never heard of MCP. Now? Companies like OpenAI, MongoDB, Cloudflare, PayPal, Wix, and AWS have either opened MCP servers or created integrations with the protocol.

What changed?

The Problem MCP Solves (And Why It Matters Now)

Your AI assistant is brilliant but blind. It can write perfect code but can't check your database. It can explain complex concepts but doesn't know what time it is. It's like having a genius locked in a room with no internet.

Before MCP, developers pointed models and agents to data with APIs. However, APIs are imperfect connectors, especially for agents that access data to complete tasks automatically.

The result? Every AI integration required custom code. Need your AI to read Slack? Custom code. Check your database? More custom code. Connect to GitHub? You get it.

MCP changes this completely.

Why MCP is Winning the Standards Race

MCP provides a universal, open standard for connecting AI systems with data sources, replacing fragmented integrations with a single protocol. Think of it as USB-C for AI.

But here's why it's actually winning:

1. It Just Works
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is adept at quickly building MCP server implementations, making it easy for organizations and individuals to rapidly connect their most important datasets with a range of AI-powered tools.

2. Major Player Backing
MCP is already supported by Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI, and is rapidly being adopted by platforms like Replit, Sourcegraph, and Vertex AI.

3. Network Effects Kicking In
The more tools available via MCP, the more useful it is to adopt the standard. We're seeing this compound effect right now.

The Real Game-Changer: Dynamic Discovery

Here's what nobody's talking about: MCP's dynamic discovery – AI agents automatically detect available MCP servers and their capabilities, without hard-coded integrations.

Translation: Your AI can discover and use new tools without you writing a single line of integration code.
Imagine spinning up a new CRM system and your AI agent immediately knowing how to interact with it. That's happening today.

Enterprise Reality Check

But it's not all sunshine. Enterprise companies are scrambling to figure out what this means. Does this mean they build MCP servers instead of APIs? Which vendors' MCP servers do they use? How do they secure these flows?

A majority of these "MCP servers" are hacked together plugins for desktop use cases. These are great when you don't care about (or don't think about) security, tenancy, and attack vectors.

The winners? Companies building MCP services - remotely-accessible, multi-tenant, enterprise-grade solutions.

Why This Matters to You Right Now

If you're a developer: Of Smithery's 2,500+ MCP servers, only 8 have surpassed 50,000 installs. The supply is outpacing demand, which means opportunity.

If you're building AI apps: Agent developers can focus on delivering value through composition and orchestration rather than building core capabilities from scratch.

If you're in enterprise: MCP enables agents to easily access real-time transaction data or vector databases, augmenting their memory and contextual understanding. Your competitors are already experimenting.

What's Coming Next

Microsoft released native MCP support in Copilot Studio, offering one-click links to any MCP server, new tool listings, streaming transport, and full tracing and analytics. The release positioned

MCP as Copilot's default bridge to external knowledge bases, APIs, and Dataverse.

Translation: MCP isn't experimental anymore. It's becoming infrastructure.

The Bottom Line

We're watching the birth of a new platform. MCP went from concept to a growing ecosystem in months, not years.

The question isn't whether MCP will become the standard - just a few months after its release, MCP adoption is growing and major players are betting on it.

The question is: Will you build on it before or after everyone else?

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The MCP ecosystem is moving fast. What are you building with it? Let me know in the comments.