The Death of API Management. Welcome to the Funeral
summary
Claim: traditional API gateways are losing governance primacy as agents, LLMs and edge compute push management into a new control plane. Evidence: studies show firms with strong API programs average ~12% higher valuation, 38% more growth and ~66% higher revenue, yet adoption stalls for pure AI without new tooling. Concrete shifts: emergence of AI gateways, an open-source Bunny prototype that runs humans+agents in Slack/Discord, and a rise of context engineering and token per second economics. APIs remain as deterministic execution layers but governance moves to capability and context registries.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13API management evolution
- 10:21AI impact on software
- 16:37Why API management fades
- 21:54APIs execution layer
- 26:49API gateways to AI gateways
- 33:56Agent experience as DX
- 39:37From API to context management
- 42:49Rivers and oceans metaphor
- 43:13Q&A
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