What the top podcasts are saying about MCP.
MCP came up in 14 of 157 episodes (9%) in the four weeks to Nov 8, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (8%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 14 episodes behind the newest bar
- We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview)The Changelog · week ending Nov 8 · said it 12 times
- Never Doubted, Back Up, Jobs Boom, Hedge Funds Explode, Cybertruck ScrappedTBPN · week ending Nov 8 · said it 10 times
- Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit Part 2Practical AI · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO…No Priors · week ending Nov 8 · said it 5 times
- [One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eri…Latent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 17 times
- Behind Latent Space, ft AIEi Shanghai preview — with swyx and Galen GaoLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 3 times
- ⚡️ The 2026 Software Factory Standard — Zach Lloyd, Warp.devLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 7 times
- Inside Figma’s PM OS: skills, agents, and Auto XPHow I AI · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- Building ChatGPT for Finance — Joseph Kim, OpenAI's Head of Financial ServicesLatent Space · week ending Nov 1 · said it 6 times
- How Reddit’s designers build ultra-realistic prototypes with Figma + CursorHow I AI · week ending Nov 1 · said it 15 times
- I tested 4 AI agents on 9 real tasks. Here’s who won.How I AI · week ending Nov 1 · said it twice
- Building what's next (Interview)The Changelog · week ending Oct 25 · said it 12 times
- High Taste Testers: The AI Tools We Keep Coming Back ToLatent Space · week ending Oct 18 · said it 7 times
- Atlassian CEO: Enterprises Won't Trust Chinese AI | Why The Jury’s Still Out on Specialis…20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Oct 18 · said it 5 times
What the shows said about MCP
Key takeaways from our write-ups that name it, newest first, no more than two from one show. Each links to the full write-up.
Resend created an official suite of over 80 named Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools after an early prototype built by Yoko Li from Andreessen Horowitz proved the concept.
Why Resend Built 80 MCP Tools for AI Agents · Latent Space · week ending Nov 15The integration relies on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let external AI agents retrieve live market context and execute trades.
Robinhood Hits 30 Million Daily Agent Calls · No Priors · week ending Nov 8The company's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server crossed one million weekly active users, orchestrating 5% of total credit consumption in the quarter.
Figma Hits $391M in Revenue and 1M Users on MCP · TBPN · week ending Nov 8Darren Taillie eliminated a 40-hour weekly queue of manual data requests at Aerocore Technologies by connecting an LLM to database MCP servers inside Microsoft Teams.
Darren Taillie Replaced 40 Hours of Data Pulls with a Teams Bot · Practical AI · week ending Nov 8Arc strips away visual workflow builders in favor of pure declarative YAML files for agents, system prompts, Anthropic SDK integrations, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool associations.
Dave Kerr Says AI Agents Belong in Kubernetes · The Changelog · week ending Nov 8Building custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers lets teams pull design tokens straight into Cursor to bridge visual design and live code.
Why Reddit Wires Live Production Data Directly into UX Prototypes · How I AI · week ending Nov 1OpenAI tested third-party Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors from prominent data providers and uncovered error rates exceeding 40 percent.
Why OpenAI Stopped Trusting Financial MCPs · Latent Space · week ending Nov 1Grok Bot outperformed every competitor in Figma via Model Context Protocol, producing original YouTube-style headline ideas and layouts instead of cookie-cutter templates.
Grok Bot Dominates Figma While Muse Wins at Video Cuts · How I AI · week ending Nov 1Protocol layers such as Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) help agents read systems, but surrendering the front end cedes your customer relationship to third-party agent providers.
Headless Is Brainless: Why AI Agents Won't Kill the UI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Oct 18Open platforms like Shopify are embracing autonomous buyer traffic, while technical protocols like MCP servers let users hand raw production assets directly to autonomous models.
Why AI Super Assistants Threaten Amazon and Web Search · The Tim Ferriss Show · week ending Oct 11
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“You could have posted it on X. Exactly. But no, I'll say one thing that works really well is the GCP/MCP is awesome, where your AI can just interact programmatically with Google Cloud.”
“…and instead they're building on their APIs and we're creating MCPS and hooks into the hotspots of the world and…”
Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…
“…right, and you say, "I'm just going to communicate with these products via MCP and with agents, you can't charge on a…”
SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike
“Yeah. You can also connect to like your Figma MCP if you if you have your slide format um saved there and it can pull…”
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…
“…system components so our design system is called sale and then it was a MCP integration with sale so there's an MCP…”
The internal AI tool that's transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams
“…is other use cases but um you can hook whether through CLI, MCPS, other tools um you can then hook that into your…”
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & C…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“Um, and it was really cool what they built. Um, and interestingly there they came a certain point halfway through the project where the client started saying, "What about MCP instead?" And MCP kind of gave us the replacement for Transformers. It was a way to kind of like call deterministic code,…”
“…really proud of how we've been executed on the MCP side. So, you know, our MCP server is up, you know, to about just…”
Never Doubted, Back Up, Jobs Boom, Hedge Funds Explode, Cybertruck Scrapped
“…this file to the agent, it probably can tell me all the answers about all the work orders from the last week, month, year. Okay, well then there's MCP servers. Okay, cool. So, like now I can just query the database directly. Well, you still have to go into Agent Forge. You still have to go in…”
“…this year um which is basically a Robinhood MCP. We call it Agentic trading and we we have Agentic credit card as well.”
Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO…
“…doing that thinking about like tool design MCP you know people I think for a while MC was getting a lot of hate I'm…”
[One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eri…
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| Latent Space | 5 | 11 |
| How I AI | 3 | 10 |
| The Changelog | 2 | 2 |
| TBPN | 1 | 9 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 4 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 3 |
| No Priors | 1 | 1 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 0 | 5 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| My First Million | 0 | 1 |
More trends
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How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “MCP” or “Model Context Protocol” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads and show promos we can spot. A model marks them in every transcript and our code checks each mark against the words; we also skip the lines around phrases like “brought to you by” and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of March 30, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. Counts MCP, the Model Context Protocol. We skip a mention near biology words such as mitochondria, since MCP is also a term in cell biology. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.