Please ship APIs, not AI
Please ship APIs, not AI July 24, 2026 Please expose your company’s core functionality via a well-considered, easily accessible API. Please consider token efficiency, fine-grained permissions, human-in-the-loop hooks, documentation, and usage in skills when designing this API. Please do this instead of (or in parallel to) building a product-specific AI chat bar or side bar or assistant or agent.
- ▪Please ship APIs, not AI July 24, 2026 Please expose your company’s core functionality via a well-considered, easily accessible API.
- ▪Please consider token efficiency, fine-grained permissions, human-in-the-loop hooks, documentation, and usage in skills when designing this API.
- ▪Please do this instead of (or in parallel to) building a product-specific AI chat bar or side bar or assistant or agent.
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Please ship APIs, not AI July 24, 2026 Please expose your company’s core functionality via a well-considered, easily accessible API. Please consider token efficiency, fine-grained permissions, human-in-the-loop hooks, documentation, and usage in skills when designing this API. Please do this instead of (or in parallel to) building a product-specific AI chat bar or side bar or assistant or agent. Please do this despite the fact that it might pose an existential threat to your company. I know it might hurt to sink beneath the maw of {Big Lab} OpenAI Anthropic Google as just another lowly agent infrastructure provider, but there is greatness in infrastructure. It’s hard and necessary. Please do this because my agent is only as good as its tools.
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