Eighteen months ago, MCP was the thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the hood. When I started seeing everyone talk about Skills, I got curious. How are MCP and Skills connected? Are they different lenses on the same problem?
I brought these questions to @greggyb again in our latest video.
What's in the video
What MCP actually does: giving a model programmatic access to APIs and the file system through natural language
Downsides of MCP: context bloat from loading hundreds of lines of tool definitions for tools you're not even using
