The APIs Mandate for GenAI & Agentic-Readiness
summary
Argues that APIs as operating system is the practical route to GenAI adoption: mandate teams to expose business-critical data and workflows via GenAI-compatible APIs (OpenAPI specs, RAG-ready endpoints), add AI-aware API/AI gateways (Kong, IBM, Google integrations) and treat agent UX as a new developer UX. Cites surprising numbers — API adopters ≈+12% valuation and +38% growth over 16 years, ~2 million models on Hugging Face, but only ~5% of AI proofs reach production — and warns of latency, cost and versioning complexity.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00GenAI and API readiness
- 3:54Jeff Bezos' API mandate
- 10:17Software 1.0 to GenAI
- 14:52AI automation potential
- 20:11Nine GenAI API mandates
- 36:42Q&A
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