Comment by TeMPOraL

100% agree, and I predict this is where the actual nearest big battle in our industry will occur.

AI subsumes products. Users want that. Vendors, do not. AI does not work well when shackled within confines of a product - it works better from outside, where it can treat slices of products as tools, and mash them together into ad-hoc solutions. Alas, products is how our industry makes money. Take arbitrary slice of problem space, slap a trademark on it, and shill to people (or VCs for funding). This disconnect makes AI an existential threat to a good chunk of software industry, and you can bet that companies (possibly including your own employers) won't go gently into the night.

MCPs are an aberration, the early stage of "AI adoption" where no one knew what they're doing but they knew they "have to do something with AI!". This age is now ending, and I expect the tensions will go high, as most vendors will get desperate to avoid their products getting obsoleted overnight.