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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 | 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 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

Stigmergy Ever watched a line of ants carry food back to the nest? That’s stigmergy — and it’s the same idea I’ve been exploring in GRAIL, where software agents follow digital “trails” to reach their goals without a pre-written plan. buff.ly/Eddnjak #api360 #aiAgent #genAI

The Mother of All Demos and the New 'Engelbarts' "We should keep an eye out for the 'Engelbarts' quietly building the future that benefits everyone." buff.ly/1ErQbR4 #api360 #substack

Guiding Principles of Great Web APIs buff.ly/0ZYymKZ here's the slide deck for my #BSDC2025 talk. a great event in a beautiful part of the US. #api360 #apiDesign

Robots, Before They Were Robots buff.ly/LHjeV5I Before Hollywood, before Boston Dynamics, robots were about labor, not lasers. #api360 #robots #genAI

Teachers Are Not OK buff.ly/rSeujkh "In my entire career, I’ve rarely gotten so many email responses to a single article, and I have never gotten so many thoughtful and comprehensive responses." -- "JasonKoebler #genAI #Learning

AI Reliability Engineering For More Dependable Humans | solo.io buff.ly/FHv1Z69 "Imagine a team of interns, maybe not as knowledgeable as you, that can run down various hypotheses for you and quickly narrow the search field down to help pinpoint issues." #genAI #SRE

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art buff.ly/Wb6bWOd "Some commentators imagine that image generators will affect visual culture as much as the advent of photography once did. The idea that photography is similar to generative A.I. deserves closer examination." #genAI #Art

AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid buff.ly/8btIy0m When a student was asked why they relied on generative AI so much when putting work together they responded, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” #genAI #Work

How We’re Using AI tinyl.co/3JGQ "In a collaboration between CJR and the University of Southern California’s AI for Media and Storytelling Initiative, we asked a diverse group of reporters, editors, executives, and others across the news industry: How does your work involve AI?" #genAI #Work

AI Chatbots Discourage Error Checking buff.ly/73EMcmc "LLMs outputs may not need much copyediting. But for professional writing, editing also includes fact-checking and ensuring that any argument follows from the facts. " #genAI #Writing

10+ Signs You Might Need API Governance | Nordic APIs | buff.ly/w17Zbiq "With rapidly exploding API demands, new security risks, and new circumstances brought on by AI, API governance is a logical response in many situations. " #apiGovernance

Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch buff.ly/OQo2mBn "Anthropic notes that Claude Opus 4 tries to blackmail engineers 84% of the time " #genAI #Work

builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt buff.ly/iKxXT0H " The company was previously known as Engineer.ai, and attracted criticism after The Wall Street Journal revealed in 2019 that the startup used human engineers rather than AI for most of its coding work. " #genAI #work

Focusing on Capabilities Is a Win buff.ly/aXdqpzY “The first step in breaking the data-centric habit is to stop designing systems as a collection of data services, and instead design for business capabilities.” -- #IrakliNadareishvili #api360 #genAI

Scholars explain how humans can hold the line against AI hype, and why it’s necessary buff.ly/4RiPXjN “AI is not going to take your job, but it will likely make your job shittier,” says Hanna, a sociologist who’s the director of research for the Distributed AI Research Institute. #genAI #work

Been working on a small framework I’m calling GRAIL (Goal-Resolution through Affordance-Informed Logic). It’s not a planner, not a workflow engine, and success does not depend on an AI/MCP environment. more here: github.com/mamund/grail... #api360 #autonomous #genAI

Judge Hints Anthropic’s AI Training on Books Is Fair Use (1) buff.ly/uMrIdir “I’m inclined to say they did violate the Copyright Act but the subsequent uses were fair use,” Judge William Alsup said Thursday during a hearing in San Francisco. #genAI #copyright

New to LLMs? Start Here  | Towards Data Science buff.ly/o8kb5Ai "This post covers key concepts with code examples to make things concrete. I’ve prepared a Google Colab notebook with all the examples so you can apply the code while reading the article. " #LLMs #genAI

Today I am sharing this blog post from #RyanDay: "Join me for an API Superstream" buff.ly/DMKAXlt Ryan will be one of the featured speakers at the upcoming #OReillyMedia API//AI superstream . Check out Ryan's post for details and how to register. #api360 #genAI

Why enterprise RAG systems fail: Google study introduces ‘sufficient context’ solution buff.ly/q6Esck6 "while RAG generally improves overall performance, additional context can also reduce a model’s ability to abstain from answering when it doesn’t have sufficient information. " #genAI #RAG

AI’s Struggle to Read Analogue Clocks May Have Deeper Significance buff.ly/pMQtNAH "The difficulty that AI models face with this task, by contrast, highlights a deeper issue: their apparent strength may depend more on high-volume exposure than on understanding. " #genAI #LLMs

So, is there a difference between MCP and inter-AI Agent Protocols? buff.ly/s3grOhp "In essence, MCP connects models to resources, while inter-AI Agent protocols enable agent-to-agent interactions in distributed AI systems." #genAI #mcp

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work b.mamund.com/3SGqMyp "... the downside for software engineers appears to be a change in the quality of their work. Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and much faster paced. " #genAI #programming

If You’re Not Threat Modeling, Your API Is Already Vulnerable - DevX buff.ly/uqPiDEb "if you care about uptime, user trust, or your job, you need to know where your API’s soft spots are. Otherwise, attackers will find them for you." #api360 #apiDesign #apiSecurity

An Entire Company Was Staffed With AI Agents and You'll Never Guess What Happened buff.ly/dEuWeEj "A recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University staffed a fake software company entirely with AI Agents and the results were laughably chaotic." #genAI #LLMs

The Great Language Flattening buff.ly/jUEM1rY "Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us" #LLMs #genAI

A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why? buff.ly/O0rfE5v "Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy"." #LLMs @genAI

Rebecca’s Web – Traces, tracks, trails, and paths buff.ly/Jakixga "explores ways we can grow as designers by becoming more aware of our heuristics, acknowledging inherent uncertainty in the design process, and learning better ways to articulate and share with each other." #api360 #softwareDesign

An interesting example of how history doesn’t repeat but it may rhyme: timely reading after the latest AI copyright judgements in the US this week

US Copyright Office: AI in Commercial Work Is Beyond Fair Use buff.ly/veqQEJg The Office believes that "government intervention would be premature at this time" because of the growth of voluntary licensing and the "lack of stakeholder support for any statutory change." #LLMs #genAI #copyright

The Hard Truth About AI Agents & Accuracy buff.ly/0irqdxa "even the top performer, Similar Agent S2, is only hitting a 34.5% success rate when given 50 steps.It means over 60% of the time, it’s still fails." #genAI #LLMs #Agentic

Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit www.reuters.com/legal/l... "A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to ...

Why I’m Not Worried About My UX Job in the Era of AI buff.ly/yhdQxti "AI is a new tool, not a replacement for UX professionals." #genAI #LLMs #design

Piano rolls disrupted music copyright 100 years ago. AI models are doing it again today. What can we learn? My latest: From Sheet Music to Source Code 👉 mamund.substack.com/p/from-sheet... special thanks to @markboyd.bsky.social & @lindybrandon.bsky.social #AI #Copyright #GenerativeAI #History

5 practical actions toward AI-readiness buff.ly/W2bmckU " A focused, strategic approach can make your content more usable, discoverable, and valuable, both to developers and AI-powered tools. Here's how to start:" --@ÁdámBalogh #api360 #genAI #LLMs

David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated music buff.ly/SDkXUKc "Cope’s work on EMI and related systems was truly original, visionary, and enormously impactful. May he rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing." -- #MelanieMitchell #AI #EMI #theMind

Recognizing the (un)Hidden Figures in AI buff.ly/RVXVOIO "Join us in celebrating and amplifying the voices of these extraordinary women leaders in AI." #genAI #LLM #ML #AI

5 Ways to Secure Agentic Access to APIs buff.ly/EfQmZis "This shift from human-driven API calls to autonomous agentic interactions means security must become more dynamic, more machine-centric, and based on workloads rather than identity." -- #KristopherSandoval #api360 #apiSecurity #genAI