Developers Lose Focus 1,200 Times a DayMCP to the Rescue?

Another day, another protocol promising to save developers from themselves. This time it’s the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic’s latest attempt to glue your AI assistant directly into every tool you already hate using. Because what developers truly needed was more integrations, not fewer meetings. MCP wants to be the Slack of your IDE—a single pane of glass through which you can stare blankly into Jira, Slack, and your codebase all at once. How revolutionary. It promises to cut down on the 1,200 daily context switches that make coding feel like digital whiplash. Because nothing says “deep work” like an AI pulling Slack drama into your pull request. But let’s be real: MCP’s real test won’t be how well it fetches tickets—it’ll be whether it survives corporate security reviews and doesn’t become yet another dashboard to ignore. If it can actually reduce tool sprawl instead of adding to it, I’ll eat my keyboard. Until then, color me skeptical. And very, very distracted.