Less MTTF and more MTTR

This is horrifying on so many levels even if you don't already know how the story ends.

Calling it "Act 2" certainly isn't helping with investors.

A 67 year old woman living out of her car? JFC.

Very obviously LLM written to anyone who's spent any time using them.

Not everybody isn't worried: https://ctolunchnyc.substack.com/p/cto-lunch-nyc-spring-2026...

"The gap is larger than most people realize" is a a dead giveaway.

Fully agree.

If you don't change your approach but just use CLI "intead of" MCP, you'll end up with a new spin on the same problems. The guardrails MCP provides (identity, entitlement, multi-principal trust boundaries) still need to exist somewhere.

https://forestmars.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-mcp-idols

This is the right framing. The chain policy problem is what happens when you ask the registry to be the entitlement layer.

Here's a longer piece on why the trust boundary has to live at the runtime level, not the interface level, and what that means for MCP's actual job: https://forestmars.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-mcp-idols

Understandable as always a proxy for predictable.