Skills vs MCP: How AI tools have evolved

A developer explores the evolution from MCP to Skills in AI tooling, noting that Skills enable non-developers to write and share instructions for agents without code. The developer quotes Greggyb saying 'the hottest programming language right now is English.'

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.