Why API keys are not enough for the agentic web
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There is a quiet assumption baked into every API on the internet: the caller is a human, or software a human configured. That assumption is breaking. In the last year, APIs have started receiving traffic from a new class of caller — autonomous AI agents that discover services, negotiate scopes, del…
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- 2026-10-15 08:19 · DEV Community — AI
Why API keys are not enough for the agentic web