I've learned about MCP Protocol

If you've been pair-programming with AI and have been working with IDEs such as Cursor, Zed or Windsurf, you might have heard about MCP Protocol. MCP Protocol is fairly new and created in-house by devs from Anthropic (the creators of Claude) and it has recently been brought under my attention by a colleague of mine. I've yet to discover the full potential, but I'm already amazed at the practical use of it and how it boosted my productivity.

Essentially, MCP Protocol allows you to talk to your dev tools using natural language. It's different than the inline chat or chat assistent panel that you're used to in IDEs like Cursor or Zed and depending on what kind of MCP servers you hook up to your environment, you can do a lot of cool stuff:

• Have the IDE search and scrape the web for you that is relevant to your codebase or application.
• Have AI make relevant and actually useful SQL queries for your application using natural language. You can even "talk" to your database using MCP.
• Manage project management tools from your IDE and ask relevant questions about active tickets or issues (e.g. Sentry) related to your codebase.

I definitely recommend this article for a good deep-dive into MCP Protocol:

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