{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI & I","title":"Inside Stainless: The Developer Tools Startup Anthropic Just Bought for $300 Million","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3086,"description":"If your MCP server has dozens of tools, it's probably built wrong. You need tools that are specific and clear for each use case—but you also can't have too many. This creates an almost impossible tradeoff that most companies don't know how to solve.\nThat's why we interviewed Alex Rattray, the founder and CEO of Stainless. Stainless builds APIs, SDKs, and MCP servers for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Alex has spent years mastering how to make software talk to software, and he came on the show to share what he knows. We get into MCP and the future of the AI-native internet. \n[Disclosure: Dan is a small investor in Stainless.]\nIf you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share.\nTo hear more from Dan Shipper:\nSubscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe\nFollow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper\nGet started with Braintrust at https://www.braintrust.dev/ \nTimestamps: \n00:01:15 - Introduction \n00:05:09 - APIs and MCP, the connectors of the new internet \n00:11:00 - Why MCP exists \n00:17:15 - Why MCP servers are hard to get right \n00:20:24 - Design principles for reliable MCP servers\n00:25:06 - Using MCP for business ops at Stainless \n00:40:57 - Alex's take on the security model for MCP \n00:44:42 - How one-off AI actions become permanent production software\nLinks to resources mentioned in the episode:\nAlex Rattray: Alex Rattray (@RattrayAlex), Alex Rattray\nStainless: https://www.stainless.com/Inside Stainless: The Developer Tools Startup Anthropic Just Bought for $300 Million","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tpm1hNSy8JXTtPDypo5McPF0S6eDqruRTGYywu9SVrc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNDM2/YzU4NDNmYTQxNTJh/MTEzYjE4YmJmYTg5/ODY1NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}