Please ship APIs, not AI | Will W. ← Home<br>Please expose your company’s core functionality via a well-considered, easily accessible<br>API.

Please consider token efficiency,<br>fine-grained permissions, human-in-the-loop hooks, documentation, and usage<br>in skills when designing this API.

Please do this instead of (or in parallel to) building a product-specific<br>AI chat bar or side bar or assistant or agent.

Please do this despite the fact that it might pose an existential threat<br>to your company. I know it might hurt to sink beneath the maw of<br>{Big Lab} OpenAI Anthropic Google<br>as just another lowly agent infrastructure provider, but there is<br>greatness in infrastructure. It’s hard and necessary.

Please do this because my agent is only as good as its tools. I want to<br>use my agent for more, and more is often locked up behind UIs. Computer<br>use is working these days, but it’s slow. Please let me skip all that and<br>just use your API.

Please do this, and leap ahead to the next frontier, whatever that is to<br>you. Feel free to give me outcomes instead of dashboards and all that.<br>Whatever it is, I’ll hear you out. But please ship an API first.