There's a new best practice for API design: whatever the LLM thinks.

· Bits and Bobs 6/2/25
  • There's a new best practice for API design: whatever the LLM thinks.
    • Don't fight the LLM, just ask it to imagine the API, and then ship that.
    • This effect will get stronger and stronger from here on out.
    • Each API creator would rather go with the flow than fight it.
    • That effect will get super-linearly harder to fight.
    • "Just do what the LLMs guess the API is" is kind of like wu wei.
    • Although it's also "lazy" and if we all do it, we'll make it harder and harder for future creators to cut against the grain.

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