E343 - Your APIs Were Never Built to Be the Front Door

#343: Here's the thing about your company's APIs -- they were built for your own engineers to use inside your own software. Nobody designed them to be the front door. But that's exactly what's happening. Matt DeBergalis, CEO of Apollo GraphQL, makes a pretty compelling case that AI agents are turning internal APIs into the actual interface between companies and customers. Not the website. The APIs themselves.

And most of them aren't ready for that. At all.

Think about what happens when you point a model at a typical REST API. GitHub's API returns hundreds of...