MCP Is the Easy Door Into an API. That’s Not the Hard Part.
What jumps out to me is how little the article is actually about MCP, despite the title. MCP looks like the plumbing success story here: it gets an agent connected. Fine. But the real problem is still the old one, just wearing a new mask: once the model can reach your API, how do you keep it from seeing too much, doing too much, or wandering into the wrong team’s data? That’s the part I find more convincing than the usual “agent integration” hype. A lot of the current conversation treats access
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