--- title: great article on what’s really happening in the reality... description: A brief reaction post sharing a take on the current AI landscape, centering on the idea that when building becomes free, distribution is the key... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/great-article-on-what-s-really-happening-in-the-reality-of-ai-when-building-is-free-distribution--lqlyjknsr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: great article on what’s really happening in the reality of AI. “When building is free, distribution becomes everything.” loved this take. only thing I don’t agree with is that MCPs will be the next app store. 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MCPs are slowly dying. people are shifting to CLIs and Skills as they’re much more token efficient. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [ℏεsam](https://daily.dev/sources/hesamation) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/lQLyJKnSr) Feb 23 • From x.com  ℏεsam @hesamation great article on what’s really happening in the reality of AI. “When building is free, distribution becomes everything.” loved this take. only thing I don’t agree with is that MCPs will be the next app store. MCPs are slowly dying. people are shifting to CLIs and Skills as they’re much more token efficient. Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughts Post Share this post [](https://daily.dev/sources/hesamation) [ℏεsam](https://daily.dev/sources/hesamation "https://daily.dev/sources/hesamation") 1 Followers • 10 Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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