My team adopted MCP fast. I encouraged it — the productivity gains were real and visible. Engineers connecting Sentry, Slack, Grafana, GitHub directly into their workflow, no friction. The kind of thing you want to happen organically.

Then one day I asked a simple question: who has a Sentry token? Who has Slack? Grafana?

The answer was: everyone. Each engineer had generated their own. No inventory. No rotation policy. No single revocation point. We had traded operational security for developer experience — and nobody had made that trade explicitly. It just happened, one mcp add at a time.

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Open source activity in April 2026: PRs, reviews, issues, comments across multiple repositories.

I took back product ownership at Buser in 2026 — not as a fallback, but because I know this cycle. On knowing when you're the right person, when you're not, and how the DHM framework changes everything when you run it backwards