What Kelsey Hightower thinks about MCP

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Self-taught software engineer, formerly a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud and one of the most visible voices in the Kubernetes community; retired from full-time work in 2023 and now advises and invests.

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3 Jun 2026

Our readingMCP is not a new foundation for anything — it is API design, and Kubernetes was already turning one intention into seven calls a decade ago.

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Their wordsSo I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.

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