Software engineering is dead. That is what they say.
Partially true. Some traditional elements of the craft are genuinely hard to find now. If a model can write the function, why would a human sit down and type it out? The honest answer is: increasingly, they would not.
But losing the typing is not the same as losing the engineering. What actually happened is that the interesting question moved up a level. It used to be how do I build this application. Now it is how do a human, an application, and a model share one workspace.
That question is why the Model Context Protocol went from a curiosity to infrastructure so fast. MCP is the answer to using one or more applications together with AI, simultaneously and synchronously. Not the model calling your API behind the user's back, but the model, the user, and your app all operating on the same live surface.
So: how do you actually build one of these things?
