CI goes red while you're in a meeting, and by the time you're back the failure has gone cold. Auto-fix watches the build for you and pushes a fix before you've even opened the tab.
Every AI assistant your team adds needs the same connection to your order database, your CRM, your ticket queue, built again, in a different SDK. Model Context Protocol lets you build that connection once.
Chat is a conversation. Agents are a system that reads, decides, and acts, which means the engineering bar, and the failure modes, are completely different.
Getting a demo working is the easy 20%. This is the rest of the list: what a prototype needs before you'd let it run unattended in front of customers.