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A neutral home for MCP, A2A, goose, and more | AAIF co-founder Manik Surtani
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MCP was already a hit before it had a neutral home. Then Manik Surtani helped launch the Agentic AI Foundation, and MCP's SDK downloads grew fivefold to over a billion. This week on Dev Interrupted, he joins Andrew to share why he expects the same kind of growth for A2A and the foundation's other newest projects, and why these protocols belong together in a neutral place. Manik also shares the unique reasons behind A2A’s rapid adoption in China’s mobile app ecosystem. They close the conversation on why open source projects like Goose now want your idea...
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Welcome back to Dev Interrupted, brought to you by Linear-B. My guest today is Manic Sertani, co-founder and CTO of the Agenic AI Foundation, the home of MCP, Goose, Agents.md, A2A, Agent Gateway, and so much more. This one's a treat for me as an ambassador for the Foundation, because I got to learn from Manic about slop cannons and bottlenecks,
and how they come down to the same culprits we discuss at linear B. That is, AI speeds up the coding and the cost moves downstream into review and rework. So what should a team do about this seemingly insurmountable review problem? You're about to find out in my conversation with Manic.
Usually I just know exactly where I want to start, but this one there's like actually more things than I can bite into. going to be able to talk to me. And I want to start by saying, Monik, welcome to the show. It's so great to have you on Dev Interrupted. Thank you, Andrew. I'm very excited to be here. Yes. And just to kick things off, I just want to say that, you know, as an AAIF ambassador,
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