API
also referred to as: apis
23 statements across 15 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 16 people on the record · first statement Mar 10, 2018 by Martin Casado · across every show →
Everything said about API, oldest first
Mar 10, 2018
Mar 10, 2018 bullish
Mar 10, 2018 positive
Casado: Domain experts can build software without low-level engineering knowledge
“So if you compare that with today, today there's an API for everything. I mean, here's an example of a few thousand APIs everywhere from getting a random quote from Chuck Norris to identifying images in a picture to searching your email inbox. Right. And so wh…”
Mar 10, 2018 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Cordova: APIs allow startups to focus entirely on core product competencies
“So maybe 1015 years ago, you used to need to have someone who knew how to do bookkeeping or accounting and payments and shipping and all of these different services to get up and running. And now you can purely focus on your core competency and like building y…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Mariotti: Fortune 500 APIs Fail When Treated as Brand Ego Projects
“You have giant Fortune 500 that thought that way, and just because they're the ego of the brand, but they never went anywhere, nobody used their APIs. Just because they think like an afterthought or a satellite thing, rather than the future.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 17, 2019
Jul 31, 2019 positive
Yoo: EHR interoperability gaps create opportunities for API startups
“And what I'm referring to there is really the laying down of electronic health records in the provider market and many of the core systems on the payer side that are creating these systems of record that are very good at storing data. What they're not so great…”
Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Dec 28, 2023 negative
Mar 15, 2025
Kumar: Voice cloning and prompting alone cannot create great AI personalities
“It takes more than just sort of, you know, voice clone plus change the prompt. Now you have a new character that's just as good as it would be if you spent a lot of time on it. It takes, I think today making a great personality voice interface system, we can't…”
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Mar 21, 2025
Rocha: Build MCP servers around core use cases, not full API spec
“Don't start through, like via the API, like just grabbing your open API spec and generating an MCP server. No, start from the use case. What are people actually doing with your product? And then you build, like, you don't need full coverage of your API, just t…”
Jun 26, 2025
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Balaji Srinivasan: AI prompts are programs for an undocumented, error-tolerant API
“Prompts are tiny programs, which is more common today, but I think, yeah, at least I articulated it went viral a while ago, and, but they're programs in a hidden API. Because normally you have an API that is fully documented, but very error intolerant, right? …”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Oct 21, 2025 bullish
AI agents will consume the internet via APIs, rendering UIs secondary
“Agents are going to consume internet in a very different way than how human did. There's not any more websites, scroll, click, up and down applications. They're going to be there, but not as relevant as before. Agents are going to programmatically exchange lab…”
Nov 28, 2025
Sherman Wu: OpenAI prices its API services using a cost-plus model
“Internally, one thing we do is, is we always make sure that we actually price our usage-based pricing from a, like, cost-plus perspective. Like, we're actually just, like, trying to make sure that we're being responsible from a margin perspective.”
Jul 7, 2026 bearish
Amble: Postgres and APIs cannot easily replace SAP's business logic
“Misconception right now is that you can just have, you know, Postgres database and APIs, and then bam, like you can replace SAP. That's like absolutely not true. That piece around the logic and everything else that is in captured in SAP is way, way more import…”