MCP Apps and the UI Question: What We're Watching For

Talking through MCP apps and where this could go. Some patterns are already working really well. Others are still finding their way. CONTENT: 00:04 - UI-based elicitation as a bridge between agents and humans 00:38 - Why forms in chat actually make sense 01:15 - What MCP promised vs what we're seeing right now 02:04 - Moving beyond the 12-tab problem 02:51 - Examples that work: color pickers, data collection, visual tools 03:59 - Better ways to present information than markdown lists 04:44 - Branded responses and why presentation matters 06:26 - Decades of research on how humans process information 07:17 - Chat is obviously the interface, so how do we make it better? 08:07 - Why internal systems might be where this really shines 09:15 - Stopgap or permanent solution? 10:23 - Live updating interfaces are genuinely exciting 11:29 - How this works across different environments 13:17 - What success looks like in six months FastMCP makes building MCP servers simple: https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp