The Model Context Protocol

I still remember the first time I tried to connect an AI model to a database. I had this brilliant plan: take a large language model (LLM), hook it up to our product catalog, and let users ask natural-language questions about inventory. Simple, right? It was… not pretty. I spent an entire weekend writing glue code, parsing free-form text responses, and praying the model would return something my code could actually work with. By Sunday evening, I had something that worked about 60% of the time. Not great for a demo on Monday morning.