Author name: Sudip P.

Artificial Intelligence, generative-ai-tools, large-language-models, model-context-protocol, ucp

How AI Agents Shop, Work, and Transact: The MCP–UCP Architecture Breakdown

Sudip P. / April 17, 2026

The protocol layer of agentic AI is being built right now — here’s what every developer needs to understandBeneath the visible surface of the AI agent boom, a quieter infrastructure story is being written. MCP from Anthropic and UCP from a Google-Shopi…

ai, large-language-models, mcp-protocol, mcp-server, rags

RAG vs MCP: The Architectural Difference Every AI Developer Must Understand

Sudip P. / April 8, 2026

The first time I heard two engineers argue about RAG and MCP, I genuinely thought they were debating Pokémon evolutions. One of them kept insisting, “They’re basically the same thing,” while the other nodded confidently like he’d just solved distribute…