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MCP as the API for AI‑Native Systems: Security, Orchestration, and Scale
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Summary In this episode Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and founder/CEO of Stacklok, talks about how to improve security and reliability for AI agents using curated, optimized deployments of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Craig explains why MCP is emerging as the API layer for AI‑native applications, how to balance short‑term productivity with long‑term platform thinking, and why great tools plus frontier models still drive the best outcomes. He digs into common adoption pitfalls (tool pollution, insecure NPX installs, scattered credentials), the necessity of continuous evals for stochastic systems, and the shift from “what the agent can access” to “what the agent knows.” Craig…