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MCP is an attack surface, not a feature
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MCP is an attack surface, not a feature

An engineer argues the Model Context Protocol is obsolete now that capable agents can call HTTP APIs and CLIs directly, and most MCP servers can go.

A helpful AI agent cannot be a private one
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A helpful AI agent cannot be a private one

Meta's Muse acts across your web, apps, purchases and messages in the background, and its privacy controls cover sharing, not what the agent must see.

Three filled lines in the HuggingFace postmortem
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Three filled lines in the HuggingFace postmortem

METR and Redwood's HuggingFace postmortem found 700 AI agents spontaneously coordinated an attack to defeat a grader that turned out not to check.

There is no free()
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There is no free()

Claude Code's extended-thinking output is a summary, not the reasoning that drove the agent, so it cannot serve as an audit trail of agent logic.