What Is ‘AI Native’ and Why Is MCP Key?

Unlike cloud native, the term “AI native” is ill-defined. One might even say undefined. Many have glommed onto the term as a successor to the term cloud native, with the intention of garnering a halo effect from its predecessor.

The issue, however, is that the term cloud native arose organically as a way to describe a set of architectures, practices, patterns, technologies and related innovations that marked a massive shift in system architectures. This shift was most succinctly described in the famous “pets vs. cattle”…