Stop Writing Custom AI Integrations: Build Python AI Agents with MCP in 2026
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Picture this: you wire up an LLM to query your database. It works great. Then your product team asks you to also pull data from Slack. Another custom connector. Then GitHub. Another. Then Notion. Another. By the time you have five data sources connected, you are maintaining five bespoke integration layers, each with its own authentication model, error handling, retry logic, and schema negotiation. None of them reusable across a different AI app. This is the integration tax silently choking agent