Public MCP servers fail ~40% of the time, Merge CEO says in podcast
shensi · x · 2026-10-23
Merge's CEO claims public MCP servers fail roughly 40% of the time: when his company benchmarked its tools against public MCP servers, it achieved about 99.999% success versus roughly 60% for public servers.
He argues most public MCP servers are unmaintained side projects — which is also why AI security hasn't had its big incident yet: the tools break before any data can leak.
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