API

also referred to as: apis

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 9, 2025 by Pieter Levels · across every show →

Everything said about API, oldest first

Jul 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Levels tells Collison: Stripe's API grew overly complicated after COVID
“I think it wasn't going well after COVID. There was a few years where things were getting, the API was getting more and more complicated. We all complained about it. There was every, it felt like it was being run by engineers, not by people who actually use St…”
Pieter Levels Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 19:35 A Cheeky Pint with serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
Oct 6, 2025
Insight
Lütke: Synthetic load testing for e-commerce infrastructure is exceptionally difficult
“It's tremendously difficult to synthetically test the, all the pieces that go into commerce, because it's just like so complex with so many things. There's so many APIs, there's so much we have to, like, the shipping to, of course, all the payments, and paymen…”
Tobi Lütke Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 31:11 Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
Mar 10, 2026 neutral
Insight
Collison: AI agents expose the lack of APIs for SaaS dashboard switches
“It turns out there's a lot of switches in the dashboard. Yeah. You know, there's no API for, and we are all as an industry collectively discovering that.”
John Collison Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 15:18 Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
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