7 publicaciones etiquetados con "Best Practices"

Every team adopting MCP eventually hits the same fork in the road: reimplement your business capabilities as an MCP server, or expose what you already have through one.

The first path feels faster on day one. It's also how a second, hidden application — a shadow of the one you already trust — gets built without anyone deciding to build it.

AI has dramatically reduced the cost of writing code. It has not reduced the cost of owning it.

That distinction may become one of the most important architecture lessons of the AI era.

Today, almost anyone inside an engineering organization can open an AI coding assistant and say:

"Here is my API. Build an MCP server for it."

If your tool server needs to interrupt the model to ask a question, ask why the question wasn't answerable before the call started.

MCP elicitation is a real, spec-defined capability, and it solves a real problem. It's also becoming a convenient place to hide a design problem instead of fixing it.

The most valuable MCP server may be the one that refuses to become your application.

MCP is moving toward a clearer architectural truth: servers should be stateless.

Every line of business logic you duplicate into an MCP creates another place where your system can eventually disagree with itself.

And that disagreement has a cost.

If every AI agent needs its own custom integration... you don't have an AI strategy. You have an integration nightmare.

Traditional APIs were built for humans and frontends. AI agents change the equation.

And this is where most teams misunderstand Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Everyone wants AI agents. No one wants AI debt.

MCP enthusiasm is real. Enterprise constraints are also real.

Security. Auth. Compliance. Deployment pipelines. Audit logs. None of that disappears because we’re excited about agents.

The hard truth? Most teams building MCP servers today are moving fast — and quietly laying the foundation for the next generation of technical debt.