I Connected 11 MCP Servers. 3 of Them Actually Did Anything.

I spent a weekend connecting every MCP server that sounded useful. By Sunday night I had 11 running, a claude_desktop_config.json that scrolled off the screen, and an agent that was technically capable of doing almost anything. In practice, it was doing almost nothing useful. What I learned had very little to do with which servers are "good." The List Looks Better Than It Performs The MCP ecosystem has exploded. There are directories with thousands of servers now. You can connect your agent to G