The Universal Remote for AI: A Deep Dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Connect any AI model to any tool, database, or API - once and for all. For years, AI developers faced what's known as the N × M integration problem. Suppose you wanted three different AI models to interact with five external services - GitHub, Slack, a database, and Jira. You'd have to write and maintain fifteen separate, brittle custom integrations. Every new model meant five more. Every new service meant three more. The combinatorics were brutal. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes everything.