What 20 Years of API Design Taught Me About Agents — a timeline from API design to agents with the consumer changing from developer to machine

What 20 Years of API Design Taught Me About Agents

I started writing about API design in 2012. Back then the question was how to make an API good enough that a developer would pick it, learn it quickly, and keep using it. Since then the question has barely changed, but the reader has. The consumer is no longer only a developer reading documentation at a desk. Increasingly it is an agent, working from whatever it can discover and understand at runtime. ...

November 10, 2026 · 8 min · 1518 words · Hugo Guerrero