Research indicates that MCP can cost up to 32x more tokens than CLI. The answer is not switching to CLI - it is designing for progressive disclosure. We explore how.

AI is already shaping internal developer portals, with platform teams testing RAG search, service ownership bots via Slack, and agent-driven automations. From the front lines, the same hurdles keep surfacing though: noisy context, hallucinations, fragmented tooling, and no governance. We take a look at how AI is affecting IDPs, and the challenges faced by the platform teams who run them.