Model Context Protocol: The USB-C Port for AI

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

The Problem: Why AI Models Were Stuck in Silos Before MCP, integrating an AI model with your tools - a database, a Slack workspace, a GitHub repo - meant writing a custom connector for every combination. With N tools and M AI platforms, you ended up with N×M bespoke integrations, each fragile, each siloed, each a maintenance burden.