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The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over


The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.

MCPs have become a rallying point for a larger vision of the future, where LLMs are connected to all the data and apps they’ll ever need, allowing them to easily perform all the rote tasks we’d like to avoid. The Web 2.0 dream of unfettered free exchange evolved into tightly governed one-way interfaces. Today there are plenty of APIs to support ad buying and posting on Facebook, Google, or Twitter, but barely any that allow you to consume data.

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