Stop Building Another REST API — Make It MCP-Ready From Day One

Okay, I'll say it. Every time someone kicks off a new backend project and opens a browser tab for "REST API best practices," a small part of me quietly weeps into my coffee. Not because REST is bad. REST is fine. REST has been very good to us. But we keep reaching for the same hammer without asking whether the thing we're hitting is still a nail. It is 2025. The AI agents are not coming. They are already here, already poking at your endpoints, already confused about what your /users/search route