Slides: Your MCP Server is Bad (and you should feel bad) - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect

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Your MCP Server is Bad (and you should feel bad) - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect

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Objective:

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product design

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“Ifa human can use an API.

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Agents find a

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