API

also referred to as: apis

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about API, oldest first

Jun 16, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Platforms will shut down APIs to fight a data holy war
“This is why everyone's going to shut down every API imaginable. It's going to be a data. Holy war is like, if you actually have differentiated data Right? That would be useful for a specific domain getting answers through a large language model or refining a m…”
Sam Lessin Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 17:26 #2: Reddit and the death of the public internet; the end of the VC "epoch" · More or Less Podcast
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Apple will release AI as developer APIs reinforcing hardware
“I think Dave made this point, you know, weeks ago. I think he's basically right, or the smart point, which is like, the way Apple would release this is a bunch of APIs for developers. That's the powerful move, right? Is to figure out effectively how to make th…”
Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 9:03 #39: How (Not?) to Exit Your AI Company, Analyzing the New Google-Apple Tie Up · More or Less Podcast
Jul 26, 2024 positive
Opinion
Sam Lessin: OpenAI's True Startup Advantage Is Having the Simplest API
“The real open AI advantage right now is it's the simplest API and big companies lose sight of this because big companies don't give a shit about how simple an API is.”
Sam Lessin Jul 26, 2024 ▶ 21:18 #57: Zuckerberg’s Open Source AI Manifesto · More or Less Podcast
Jan 16, 2026 bearish
Insight
Sam Lessin: Ubiquitous AI will kill public APIs and turn everything into walled gardens
“The upshot is like, in some ways, all that AI is doing is rationalizing effectively the world of APIs and the world of programmatic access. Because when you drop access, where it's not just like really sophisticated, smart people who can kind of do stuff and y…”
Sam Lessin Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 36:49 SaaS Companies Beware: AI Is The New UI (Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork) · More or Less Podcast
Sep 4, 2026 bearish
Insight
Sam Lessin: Universal scripting makes AI models interoperable, destroying provider margins
“When you get down to a lower level, because you can no longer have on-off APIs, because everything is scriptable, because these things can script any interface and interact anyway, as long as you have data sovereignty, meaning like it's your data, they're all …”
Sam Lessin Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 23:19 AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried? │Claude vs. Grok, Tesla vs Waymo, Google vs Canva · More or Less Podcast
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