# Skills vs MCP: How AI tools have evolved > Source: > Published: 2026-07-30 17:50:23+00:00 Eighteen months ago, MCP was *the* thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the hood. When I started seeing everyone talk about *Skills*, I got curious. How are MCP and Skills connected? Are they different lenses on the same problem? I brought these questions to [@greggyb](https://dev.to/greggyb) again in our latest video. My favorite line from this one: the hottest programming language right now is English. Skills let non-developers write, iterate on, and share instructions that make an entire team's agents faster, no code required. Are you using Skills yet? Curious where everyone's at.