Silicon Valley is still brightly lit at 3 a.m., and an engineer suddenly bounced out of his chair while debugging code — on the screen in front of him, the AI intelligence that had just been deployed was autonomously calling Gmail to send emails, adjusting the Google Calendar schedule, and synchronizing the GitHub codebase, and the whole process was running in a cloud of water, with no human engineer writing a single line of command code. No human engineer wrote a single line of command code.
This is not a sci-fi movie scene, but a technology earthquake triggered by Cloudflare’s newly released MCP protocol. While global tech giants are still exploring AI application scenarios, the company, which owns the world’s largest edge computing network, has quietly built the core infrastructure for the era of intelligent bodies.
i. mcp: breaking the sub-dimensional wall between ai and the real world
Before the MCP (Model Context Protocol), AI intelligences were like geniuses in a glass enclosure, seeing the tools and data of the outside world but always separated by an impenetrable barrier. Developers needed to write adaptation code for each API interface, like designing separate outlets for each appliance, which was inefficient and difficult to scale.
Cloudflare’s combo punch this time around is amazing:
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A Silicon Valley VC partner bluntly put it: "This is like issuing a passport to the digital world to each AI smart body, from now on, the boundaries between the world of code and the real world are beginning to dissolve. "
Two or three keys to open Pandora’s Box
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The moment a developer opens agents.cloudflare.com, they see three game-changing killers:
The first key: dynamic connectivity
- Automatic discovery of new features in external services, like putting a smell organ in the AI
- Synchronize tool updates in real-time, avoiding the embarrassment of "the tool has been upgraded, but the AI is still confused"
- Multi-server parallel connectivity to solve the "left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing" collaboration problem
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- Integrate Stytch/Auth0/WorkOS three authentication giants to build an enterprise-grade protection network
- Dynamic hierarchy of permissions to ensure that intern intelligences don’t accidentally touch CEO-level data
- OAuth 2.1 protocol escort, so that every data call is traceable
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The Third Key: Never Lose Power Mode
- WebSocket hibernation technology to keep the server alive like a hibernating bear
- Distributed SQLite storage to create "memory palaces" for AI intelligences
- Free tier supports millions of requests, zero cost startup for startup teams
III. Cursor+MCP: clear evidence that programmers are disappearing
In the GitHub Hotlist project, Total TypeScript founder with 28 lines of code to achieve the MCP server is shocking. When a developer plugs a Cursor editor into the MCP network:
- Slack messages are automatically translated into feature requests
- Intelligents autonomously analyze the current state of the codebase
- Call cloud resources to complete development tests
- Automatically generate Pull Request waiting for review
The whole process is like an assembly line in the digital world, where human developers are upgraded from coding workers to quality inspectors. A Silicon Valley CTO said frankly: "The only thing left to stop programmers from losing their jobs is the last bastion of code review. "
four, the trillion-dollar market of the beach landing battle
This technology revolution is rewriting the rules of the game in three areas:
Developer Battlefield
- The traditional API development model has suffered a descending blow
- Tool integration time compressed from weeks to minutes
- Startup teams can call on resources comparable to tech giants
Enterprise Services Marketplace
- Identity triumvirate grabs AI entrance
- Workflow automation enters the "no code" era
- Every SaaS product is evolving into an MCP server
The end-user revolution
- Personal assistants evolve into true "digital doppelgangers"
- Cross-platform operations simplified to natural language commands
- Data silos are completely broken down
While the east is white with fish-belly, the engineers at Cloudflare are still optimizing the MCP protocol. They may not realize that what they are building is not just a technical protocol, but a new Tower of Babel for digital civilization – where all AI intelligences can talk freely, all digital tools can work together seamlessly, and all human creativity can be instantly transformed into reality. This AI war without smoke, winners and losers may have been predetermined at the moment the agreement was released.
