I heard from @shensi that public MCP servers fail about 40% of the time. When Merge benchmarked its tools against public MCP servers, it got 99.999% success versus roughly 60%. Most public servers are side projects nobody maintains. That's also why AI security hasn't had its big incident yet: the tools break before any data can leak. 00:00 Intro 01:42 Building Merge six years before AI 03:24 Rebuilding for agents on nights and weekends 04:53 How agents pick the right tool out of thousands 06:13 Agents only see what's on the menu 06:42 "It's irresponsible to be using AI without a DLP layer" 07:39 Merge for Workforce and model routing 09:16 Why most AI spend is in coding agents, not product 10:45 Why you can't vibe code critical infrastructure 12:00 Public MCP servers succeed 60% of the time 12:59 Is MCP the right protocol? 16:20 Why founders have to be in the discourse 18:30 "If you as the founder are not AI-pilled… that's the ceiling" 21:05 996, experience, and AI-pilled juniors 37:48 "Humans will become the blocker" to the singularity 39:04 The next 10 years of Merge Watch the full episode of Navigators on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.