Over the last decade, we’ve refined how APIs are built, shared, and consumed. REST became a common ground, OpenAPI offered structure, and gRPC brought speed. But now, in the age of AI, something new is surfacing: the rise of MCP servers — Model Context Protocol servers.
These systems offer an enticing promise: bring AI into the loop by orchestrating backend calls, shaping flows in natural language, and empowering LLMs to act more independently.