Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a series of Q&As between Stack Overflow’s least technical writer, Phoebe Sajor, and members of our technical staff, where she asks the simple, basic tech questions that most people are afraid to ask. This first interview is with Ben Marconi, Stack Overflow’s Director of Ecosystem Strategy, whose work on the Solutions Engineering team has been integral to the implementation of features like MCP into Stack Internal . Phoebe Sajor: Hi Ben, thanks so much for joining me. I think the first question I definitely need to ask is what is an MCP server?  Ben Marconi: Yeah, that's a good question. I think a lot of people in the market—even those who use these tools—are asking, “What is this new thing and is it going to stick around forever?” MCP is just an acronym that stands for Model Context Protocol . So, think of a protocol as a standard. This was something that came from Anthropic, I think it was November or December of 2024.…