<![CDATA[Applied Stack: MCPs]]>https://appliedcode.substack.com/s/mcphttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eiGL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda17ffdd-4367-4fef-93c4-fc5dda500c60_1254x1254.pngApplied Stack: MCPshttps://appliedcode.substack.com/s/mcpSubstackMon, 10 Aug 2026 02:20:25 GMT<![CDATA[Every SaaS Company Should Be Terrified of MCP]]>https://appliedcode.substack.com/p/every-saas-company-should-be-terrifiedhttps://appliedcode.substack.com/p/every-saas-company-should-be-terrifiedMon, 15 Jun 2026 20:43:04 GMT

The Protocol That Threatens a Trillion-Dollar Industry

The software industry is built on a simple assumption:

Humans use software.

Every SaaS company—from Salesforce to HubSpot, from Asana to Notion, from Workday to ServiceNow—has spent decades optimizing for this reality.

They built dashboards.

They built menus.

They built workflows.

They built user experienc…

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]]><![CDATA[What Is MCP? The Protocol That Could Become the Operating System of the AI Economy]]>https://appliedcode.substack.com/p/what-is-mcp-the-protocol-that-couldhttps://appliedcode.substack.com/p/what-is-mcp-the-protocol-that-couldMon, 15 Jun 2026 20:38:32 GMT

Introduction: The Most Important Technology You’ve Never Heard Of

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence.

Investors are obsessed with model benchmarks. Executives debate whether GPT-5 is smarter than Claude. Governments worry about artificial general intelligence. Startups race to build the next AI application.

Almost nobody is paying attention …

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]]><![CDATA[Why MCP Might Become the Most Important AI Standard Since HTTP]]>https://appliedcode.substack.com/p/why-mcp-might-become-the-most-importanthttps://appliedcode.substack.com/p/why-mcp-might-become-the-most-importantMon, 15 Jun 2026 20:28:48 GMT

For the past two years, the AI industry has been obsessed with models.

GPT-4. Claude. Gemini. Open-source reasoning models.

Most conversations focus on who has the smartest model.

That may be the wrong question.

The more important question is:

How do AI systems connect to the real world?

A language model sitting alone in a chat window is useful. A language mo…

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