API

“Because nine times out of 10, these will be better, faster, and cheaper than your internal team can build, and they're getting in the way of you building the high value layer on top of it.”

“We've killed the teams, but maintain the products. So we find another home internally for the product to live. We have never killed an API that we've ever built.”

“Now we can ship 18,000 times a year, and we have a five nines available API, and a seven nines success rate of the request that we're serving.”

“In machine learning, you know, a lot of AI people are like, yeah, we push the performance of this model, and we define performance as accuracy or, you know, accuracy along these, like, general benchmarks. Maybe it's sixth grade science questions or something. …”

“Our big goals for this year is how do we make sure we've kind of opened up? I don't think anybody's ever done this. Give you all of the APIs into our customer database. So it's a little bit like a SQL database, but just really designed for kind of customer, yo…”

“I think the answer is we're going to end up having both. I think APIs are very, are deterministic and cheap. Works the same way every single time. And so there's a whole set of use cases that Do you want it to work that way? Where MCP is a lot more flexible. T…”

“We have moved from open API access To personal access tokens, we know exactly who's accessing our API. We know exactly what they're doing. We know how they're using the API. We know how often they're using the API. They can't get at it without our express perm…”

“Your APIs used to be, unless you were, unless your company was an API, unless you were Stripe or something, it was often a niche portion of your platform that a lot of folks didn't even touch or understand because only developers could use it. Now anyone can u…”

“So if you have not, if you, if you're not giving it the attention it deserves, you're going to lose in the authentic era because anyone can use your API and it's just going to accelerate.”

“So now a non-technical customer or non-technical resource of the customer will ask for an API so that they can vibe the feature that they want.”

“The API is the future of software, because we can all interface with APIs now, right? APIs used to be just for your engineers and used to developers. Now anyone can access your API. So I could democratized.”

“When you hook up APIs, the agent will come up with use cases for the API you didn't even know existed, right?”

“If your API is not agent friendly, it is a crying shame because you will lose customers when the agent says, I don't want to, I don't, I want to use a different vendor, right?”

“These are now just APIs. All these craft skills that were, or dark arts are now just APIs.”

“You're going to lose in the vendor war if you're not the one that not just is recommended in AO, but where the agent says, I will just do it with this API.”