MCP has a BIG problem

MCP has several challenges but the biggest one is the fact that it is a *stateful* protocol. This effectively means that you cannot add MCP compatibility to a simple REST API - you need to deploy a stateful long-running server. This also means that serverless functions - which are a natural fit for AI tool calls - cannot be used with MCP. I believe this is a show-stopper for MCP and that other simpler methods are the best way forward for solving the AI data integration problem. Ultimately, we need to hook up *existing* APIs to Agents - not force developers to create and deploy new types of se…