https://thedetech.com/tags/startups/Recent content in Startups on Thede TechnologiesHugoen-usWed, 05 Aug 2026 14:47:19 -0500https://thedetech.com/blog/the-processing-layer-is-not-a-moat/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thedetech.com/blog/the-processing-layer-is-not-a-moat/<p>A few months ago, a friend booked a meeting room at a coworking space in Nashville and invited anyone interested in AI to come talk shop on a Friday morning. No agenda, no slides - just builders comparing notes on what&rsquo;s actually working.</p> <p>One of those Fridays, a conversation about MCP - Model Context Protocol, the mechanism that lets AI agents interact directly with tools like Jira, Sentry, and GCloud - sent me home to rebuild my entire engineering workflow. I wrote about that in <a href="https://thedetech.com/blog/eliminating-waste-in-the-sdlc/">Eliminating Waste in the SDLC</a> . The short version: I gave Claude Code access to the same tools I use, and 12 hours of manual work per week disappeared.</p>