Inference, agents, databases: what software engineers must master as MCP turns SaaS into 'a database in a trench coat'
sh_reya · x · 2026-11-10
BenjDicken urges anyone in software to learn inference, agents, and databases well — the three skills that matter most now.
The retweet amplifies Andrew Qu's observation that since the MCP-ification of SaaS, much of what he pays for is essentially 'a database in a trench coat' — the value underneath the middleware is still data storage and retrieval.
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