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i keep seeing people saying 'agents are the new APIs', but if agents need APIs under the hood to do things then I'm not really sure this is/will be the case

this is probably more of a semantic argument, but instead of having my agent call upon another agent, i'd rather have my agent call upon some small kit of highly specialized tools to call

curious if anyone has thoughts here! my argument certainly is *not* that services won't interact through LLMs, it's more about how we as developers make our tools accessible to others

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yeah exactly — at the end of the day two services need to communicate and pass data(both auth/params as input and the result as output) and there need to be streamlined ways both to categorize what services do and to actually communicate with them

so at the end of the day we can call them whatever, all I’m saying is I don’t see why we need to move away from APIs as a standard for interacting with apps(putting aside the whole argument about headless browsing etc)

API between what? This is the distinction.

Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo.

Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds…

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reminded me of this recent post

https://x.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1880324753170256005?s=46&t=hu5xXueIqQScjnSVTaZusg

Thinking similar things about generative UI lately

Agents are the new cron job is how I've been thinking about it

agents might call agents in a novel way, and it’s a different mindset from more advanced/multi-tool agents, but it’s the meta that took hold here for some reason.. i guess because of the influencers