Building Production MCP Servers: What the Spec Won’t Tell You (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on May 27, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Can Demir Originally published on Towards AI. The token bill, the tool-count cliff, and the “expected behavior” security handoff — three costs MCP delegates without naming them. Scroll through developer forums this month and you’ll see the same obituary in every thread: MCP is dead. Eric Holmes’ “MCP is dead, long live the CLI” hit the top of Hacker News. Pieter Levels called MCP “just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt.” Thoughtworks p...