The Download: MCP funeral, Perplexity computer, and Doom on a badge
GitHub shares a short developer-news roundup covering the “MCP is dead?” debate (including a FastMCP “funeral”), Perplexity’s always-on agent “Personal Computer” announcement, a Doom port running on the GitHub Universe badge, and GitHub Issue Fields entering public preview.
The Download: MCP funeral, Perplexity computer, and Doom on a badge
A quick developer-news roundup from GitHub.
Topics covered
Is MCP dead?
- Discussion about a social media debate on whether MCP is “dead”, including commentary that FastMCP is “hosting a funeral” for it.
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Perplexity announces a “Personal Computer” for always-on AI agents
- Mentions Perplexity announcing a “Personal Computer” focused on always-on AI agents.
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Doom on the GitHub Universe badge
- Highlights a developer getting Doom running on the GitHub Universe badge.
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GitHub Issue Fields in public preview
- Notes that GitHub Issue Fields are officially in public preview, positioned as a replacement for “label hacks”.
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Video chapters (from the description)
- 00:00 Welcome to The Download
- 00:43 Is MCP dead?
- 02:41 Perplexity announces personal computer
- 03:51 Running Doom on the GitHub Universe badge
- 05:12 GitHub Issue Fields in public preview
- 06:33 Outro
GitHub links shared
- YouTube: https://gh.io/subgithub
- Blog: https://github.blog
- X: https://twitter.com/github
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/github
- Insider newsletter: https://resources.github.com/newsletter/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/github
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@github
- Main site: https://github.com