In this video, we chat with the creator of MCP, David Soria Parra. He tells us why MCP was created, why it was donated to the Linux Foundation, his honest opinion on MCP vs Skills, his vibe coding workflow and so much more!

🔎 Chapters:
00:00 Welcome and Intro
01:21 MCP origin story
05:19 Biggest takeaway from MCP so far
08:39 What David is excited about
10:45 What are MCP apps
12:25 How the Skills hype impacts MCP
17:02 To vibe code or not to vibe code
20:22 Balancing what people want now vs what's needed longer term
24:00 Code quality - how important is it
26:45 Languages - a quick review by David
28:53 David's stack
30:15 David's workflow
33:10 Is there such a thing as the ideal UX
36:10 The donation of MCP to the Linux Foundation
41:12 Closing
41:48 Wrap

🔗 Link:
https://github.com/microsoft/mcp-for-beginners

🎙️ Featuring: 
Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza: https://x.com/madebygps
Marlene Mahngami: https://x.com/marlene_zw
David Soria Parra: https://x.com/dsp_ 

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David Soria Parra, co-creator of MCP at Anthropic, shares the origin story of MCP — born from frustration with manually copying code between editors and Claude Desktop. He discusses MCP's explosive growth, the hype cycle around it, and how MCP and Skills are complementary rather than competing. He explains why Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation (trademark neutrality, license protection, enterprise trust) while remaining fully committed to its development. He also shares his personal workflow using Claude Code in a terminal with plan mode and parallel sub-agents, his views on vibe coding (broadly positive with caveats for critical systems), and his belief that current IDEs and CLIs are only local optima for agentic development UX.

MCP is so back! (feat. David Soria Parra)