Please ship APIs, not AI
18 hours ago
- Prioritize exposing core functionality through a well-designed, accessible API with token efficiency, fine-grained permissions, human-in-the-loop hooks, documentation, and skill usage support.
- Advocate for shipping an API instead of (or alongside) product-specific AI chat bars, sidebars, assistants, or agents, despite potential existential threats to the company.
- Emphasize that infrastructure providers play a hard but necessary role, and APIs enable agents to overcome UI limitations and operate more efficiently.
- Encourage leaping to the next frontier by delivering outcomes directly via API, rather than dashboards, starting with the API as the first step.