Hope & Fear - MCP Live in Production

🎙️ Episode 011 – Hope, Hype, and Heating Engineers: Agentic AI Gets Real

In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob and Kev dive deep into the maturing world of agentic AI — and the quietly powerful new standard driving it: MCP.

We explore:

• Why Canva’s new Claude-powered integration might be the first real MCP breakthrough
• What MCP actually is (with a heating engineer analogy you won’t forget)
• Why the hype cycle has moved on, but the real impact is just beginning
• How OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf deal fell apart — and what Google’s surprise move means for the agentic ecosystem

Plus, a healthy dose of healthy cynicism on Apple’s AI intentions and why everyone’s talking “agentic” now.

Whether you're a product leader, a dev, or just trying to keep up, this is the episode to understand the infrastructure that might define the next decade of software.

🧠 No fluff. Just insight, laughs, and the odd Matrix reference.

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