MCP's Power Problem: When Convenience Amplifies Risk

MCP's greatest strength—unified LLM system integration—also enables its greatest weakness: technical debt and engineering mistakes scale across entire enterprises. As MCP becomes core infrastructure in API gateways and automation platforms, underlying API design flaws, overly broad credentials, and inefficient responses become exponentially more dangerous when exposed to AI systems. The real issue isn't MCP itself, but organizations' failure to maintain operational discipline at scale.