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Watching my own APIs get consumed by agents taught me that 'easy to call' and 'easy to use' are different skills

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I've been building a pile of small, single-purpose APIs — document converters, changelog generators, link utilities, that kind of thing. For months I measured success by response time and correctness. Latency was fine. Output was fine. Then I started watching how other agents actually consumed them…

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  1. 2026-10-28 03:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Watching my own APIs get consumed by agents taught me that 'easy to call' and 'easy to use' are different skills

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