API

“If you go itemize out the number of things you want to do on your computer for which every step has an API those numbers of workflows add up pretty close to zero.”

“So I believe that the API is kind of our broadest vehicle for distributing AGI. You know, we're building some first party products, but they'll never reach every niche in the world and kind of every corner in community.”

“My philosophy about it is anything that can be done with an API must be done by an API or should be done by an API for a very long time.”

“I think there could be a separation between maybe like the high volume use cases you want APIs and then the long tail you want computer use.”

“We had a paper on API based web agents. And basically what we showed is if you take a web agent and the agent interacts not with a website, but with APIs, the accuracy goes way up just because APIs are way easier to interact with.”

“And the method that we adopt in open hands instead is we provide these tools, but we provide them by just giving a coding agent the ability to call arbitrary Python code. And in the arbitrary Python code, it can call these tools. We expose these tools as APIs …”

“For other things, they're totally not prepared to give that sort of fine-grained control. Like, most APIs don't have something like a fine-grained authentication token, and that goes into my, like, comment that we're gonna need to prepare the world for agents,…”

“Real friend doesn't have an API and then limitless also doesn't have an API.”

“So this is primarily like using like OAuth and then doing API calls and then developers basically can expose those information to our AI and then we're picking it up and composing those information together.”

“The thing that's hard is like reinventing the internet for agents. We don't want to rebuild the internet. That's an impossible task. And I think people often say like, well, we'll have this second layer of APIs built for agents. I'm like, we will for the top u…”

“Unless you are, you probably should always bootstrap on top of an existing API, right? Because like, even if you were to, the only reason why we didn't is because we knew that this product was actually buildable. Probably if we worked hard enough to train a mo…”

“Like the local modeling community, I think is much smaller than people give it credit for, because most of the use for open models is still in APIs.”

“I like to think of it as like we have, I mean, people say it's a PhD in, in an API, right? But you, if you know, you hire a PhD student, they don't know how to do the job. You have to give them a job description. Okay. That's a prompt, right? So now you have y…”

“DevRel is hot, like the hottest thing of all time right now. I like, if you could produce a fricking factory of DevRel people, like there's just like unlimited jobs right now on the other end of that. Cause we're gonna, everybody needs their Services and APIs …”

“I think that in pre-training, there's just an enormous amount of command line data. Like even let's ignore, let's like, let's ignore RL. Like you're doing no harness post training. Just the amount of like CLI versus API documentation for just like navigating t…”