Three months ago, I spent two weeks building a custom plugin to connect our AI assistant to our internal CRM system. Last week, I replaced it with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that took four hours to implement, and it works with every AI model in our stack.
This is not just a productivity win, but a glimpse into a fundamental shift happening across the AI ecosystem. It feels like the era of fragmented plugins is ending, and MCP is emerging as the universal interface that could standardize the way AI systems interact with tools, data…
