A practical companion to 'From Composability to Compression,' this article provides a checklist for deciding when to compress API workflows, explores escape hatches and partial success patterns, examines versioning and evolution strategies, and highlights cost discipline in compressing APIs.
APIs were designed for human developers and optimized for composability. But AI agents operate in a token economy where fewer calls, lower entropy, and atomic outcomes matter more. It may be time to rethink API design for the agentic era.
How Postman went from redefining API tooling to stalling at its own ceiling and what the next generation of tools is doing differently.
How misaligned incentives undermine open source projects — and why 'monetize later' often leads to the very restrictions open source was meant to avoid.