Mike Amundsen

How to Optimize API Documentation for AI Discoverability | Nordic APIs | Learn how to optimize API documentation for AI discoverability with structured data, examples, and other best practices.

From structured specs to real-world examples, discover how to make your API documentation readable for both humans and AI.

after months of working on my GRAIL system for enabling autonomous agents, i think i might be recreating the Unity game engine for APIs.

is that a good thing, tho?

#genAI #GRAIL

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

b.mamund.com/3KXp1fp

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped ... and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/115395225560522922

AI-Driven API Design From vocabulary to documentation and testing

My O’Reilly Live Course AI-Driven API Design returns Nov 11. The last one sold out fast.

We’ll build APIs with AI as a creative partner — using small, focused “AI coaches” to turn stories into specs, docs, and prototypes.

Join me live :https://b.mamund.com/47iCrv4

#APIDesin #LLM #OReillyLive

nailed it

I've been working with LLMs to create a set of topic-specific "API Coaches".

They're not "teachers" as they ss they 'prompt' the user through a series of questions and recommendations.

i'd love to hear from others who are doing similar things

#LLM #genAI #API360

AI Tulips A field guide to navigating AI hype cycles

In 1637, tulip bulbs sold for more than canal houses. Then the market crashed & everyone asked, what were we thinking?

Today’s AI boom feels familiar. We’re trading agents and copilots instead of bulbs, but the mania looks the same.

My latest Substack "AI Tulips"
mamund.substack.com/p/ai-tulips

In this slide deck @mamund.bsky.social describes how digital businesses and API providers already have all the components and processes in place to build agentic systems: mamund.site44.com/talks/2025-1...

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Correctness Isn’t Competence AI-generated code risks becoming a liability in production unless we demand efficiency and quality.

Passing tests ≠ production-ready.

AI-generated code often hides inefficiency and debt. Don’t confuse correctness with competence.

Read the full article here: mamund.substack.com/p/correctnes...

#AI #LLM #CodeQuality

had a great time at #apiConference in NYC this week. #thanks to the conference team for a solid event and to all the attendees for the interaction and feedback. hope to see you again soon.

#api360

Creating Your Own MCP-Style Agentic System

Here's my slides for my #apiConference talk "Creating Your Own MCP-Style Agentic System" b.mamund.com/4mKYdfF

This talk shows a working version of an agentic system you can download and adapt to your environment today.

Making Your APIs AI-Ready

Here are my slides for my #apiConference talk "Making Your APIs AI-Ready" b.mamund.com/4oj5vIT

"This talk outlines five critical shifts organizations can make to ensure their API ecosystems are machine-ready: Intentionality, Context, Standardization, Discovery, and Adaptability."

Kicking off our #apiManagement workshop at #apiConference in New York

The Hypermedia Commons We Missed It’s time to ask: do we want a plantation of transactions, or a living commons of creativity?

What kind of web do we want to leave behind: human or machine?

In a new piece I reflect on an alternate universe of hypermedia imagined by four pioneers:

* Paul Otlet
* Ted Nelson
* Wendy Hall
* Leonard Richardson

Read the full essay: b.mamund.com/42EZ8a9

Design and Build Great Web APIs This fast-paced and comprehensive book covers all the critical aspects of programming web APIs with NodeJS including design, build, test, security, and deployment.

my book "Design and Build Great Web APIs" s 45% off for the next 48 hours!

Grab it with code "flashsale"

buff.ly/Ta2EIAd

#pragprog #api360 #apiDesign

agreed.

i posted my take on this earlier this week:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

AI is a Tool, Not a Feature Escaping the trap of AI as fast-fashion slop

I get asked all the time: “How should we add AI to our product?”

My answer is simple: Treat AI as a tool, not a feature.

And if you want AI to mean something in your work, put it to work where it counts — in building and sustaining products that last.

Full post here: buff.ly/KgtXCbf

"Driven by a compulsion to cut overhead costs — and avoid the wrath of similarly AI-fixated shareholders — executive teams across the US can’t wait to force AI onto their workforces, consequences be damned."

CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster CEOS are some of AI's most devoted acolytes, but they're growing increasingly frustrated as the tech fails to deliver as expected.

CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster buff.ly/d88Jloq

A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot' A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

Robots, Before They Were Robots Before Hollywood, before Boston Dynamics, robots were about labor, not lasers.

earlier this summer, i covered this in a similar way here:
mamund.substack.com/p/robots-bef...

A quick overview of interoperability Interoperability is the ability for systems to connect and co-create value. This quick overview describes key concepts of interoperability and provides a model and action list to improve interoperabil...

We compiled our vids and overviews on interoperability into one post: platformable.com/blog/Interop... Interoperability is an essential component of open digital ecosystems that makes it easier to collaborate and for all orgs to participate

Decode eHealth internationally Want to expand into other countries? Find out how to get in touch.

We have a health policy dashboard coming out soon to help stakeholders understand the digital health ecosystem in each country: main players, regulations & opportunities. France gets it. They are already doing something similar to support healthetch go to market gnius.esante.gouv.fr/en/decode-eh...

Ontology, Taxonomy, Choreography The Forgotten Foundation of APIs

Ontology, Taxonomy, Choreography buff.ly/XQjeLLD

The best APIs have a certain feel to them. They’re easy to navigate, quick to understand, and surprisingly hard to misuse.

#api360 #apiDesign

3 Ways to String Multiple APIs Together | Nordic APIs | Should you use serialized flows, specifications, or AI agents? Explore three modern approaches to connecting multiple APIs.

3 Ways to String Multiple APIs Together | Nordic APIs | buff.ly/A9myy4H

"we’re going to look at three common approaches to connecting multiple APIs together. We’ll dive into what these look like practically and see what the world of AI has to say about this process. "

#api360 #genAI #workflow

If you work on HTTP implementations, deploy it at scale, or have a unique perspective or interest in the protocol, you might find other people to talk to at the 2026 HTTP Workshop: https://github.com/HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026?tab=readme-ov-file#2026-http-workshop

Why AI-Driven Client Apps Don't Understand Your API Recent surveys point to a massive growth in AI-driven bots crawling the internet looking for APIs. While many of these have malicious intent, a growing number

Why AI-Driven Client Apps Don't Understand Your API buff.ly/AucoXVk

"Four practices that we already know make it easier for human developers to understand and use our APIs ... are the same things that will help AI-driven API clients be more successful, too."

#api360 #OReilly #genAI