Conquer the API Rainbow Road with these Dev Cheat Codes
summary
Conference claims that 71% of internet traffic is API calls while 85% of teams report RESTful APIs but under half have OpenAPI specs and forecasts say 80% of enterprise AI agent frameworks will use MCP style discovery by 2028. Five concrete "cheat codes" are: AI-driven API specs to auto-generate and maintain OpenAPI, mocks from OpenAPI to enable parallel development and reliable tests, and workflow testing plus shared remote dev environments. A modular tool called Blackbird ships with IDE/CLI, AI spec generation, mock servers and ephemeral remotes and is offered as a 30‑day trial.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00API development challenges
- 1:07API specs critical now
- 3:15What API specs matter
- 5:58Dev loops explained
- 9:46Cheat codes to improve APIs
- 10:07AI-driven API specs
- 12:13Mocks based on API specs
- 14:24Workflow testing embrace
- 18:20Speed versus quality
- 20:49Remote development shared
- 22:16Summary and Blackbird tool
- 24:24Q&A
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