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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 12h

You don’t design APIs for yourself. "Consumer-focused API Design." That’s the name I like to give to the exercise of engaging with potential users to understand what they need. apichangelog.substack.com/p/consumer-f...

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 29/09/2026

A while ago, I was involved in decommissioning an API that had been running for a long time. It had its issues and was being replaced with a better, more performant, and updated API. How would I ensure that all the consumers stopped using the API? apichangelog.substack.com/p/deactivati...

Deactivating an API, One Step at a Time

How do you make sure all consumers stop using an API so you can safely deactivate it?

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 28/09/2026

The "search engine" approach to finding APIs doesn't work. First, you need to know what to search for. Then, the APIs indexed by the search engine need to have their metadata well-written. apichangelog.substack.com/p/intent-bas...

Intent-based API Discovery

How can AI agents implicitly discover what APIs to consume?

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 28/09/2026

Most API consumers now aren't human. We're long past those days. Now, AI agents can discover, make requests, and combine API operations, all on their own. apichangelog.substack.com/p/an-a2a-sur...

An A2A Survival Guide for API Owners

How to build asynchronous, discoverable services for autonomous multi-agent networks.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 27/09/2026

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Widely thought of as the "founder of the internet," Vint Cerf discusses the ideals behind the original internet—including the emphasis on the net being an open, neutral, level playing field—and how to re-install a sense of trust to today's new AI-dominated version.

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“The internet is a giant copying machine”: Interview with Vint Cerf

Widely thought of as the “founder of the internet,” Vint Cerf talks about how to re-install a sense of trust to this new AI-dominated version, and the ideals behind the original internet—including…

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 28/09/2026

Intent-based API Discovery

How can AI agents implicitly discover what APIs to consume?

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week marks one year since “What Is Intelligence?” was published.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 25/09/2026

If you're not able to join us in person at @nodeconf.eu in Bologna, Italy next week, please do try to join us remotely here live.nodeconf.eu ... every talk will be broadcast live with downloadable recordings available after.

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NodeConf EU 2026 Live | Bologna, Italy

Watch NodeConf EU 2026 live from Bologna on 29-30 September.

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Shared Computer Network (SCN) @sharedcomputer.network · 26/09/2026

The cloud is always someone else's computer: lets start making it that we know those someone people better, and that we are in community together. Community Scale AI with @sharedcomputer.network

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What is the Shared Computer Network?

SCN: Community Scale AI

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 25/09/2026

Should agents generate integration code once or let AI figure out how to consume APIs whenever they need to? apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-archit...

The Architectural Limits of Agentic iPaaS

AI agents don't crash on API changes, they just get them wrong.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 25/09/2026

Something I'm #writing related to agentic integration solutions.

The image shows the beginning of an article I'm writing: "Should agents generate integration code once or let AI figure out how to consume APIs whenever they need to? It's true that dynamic inference at runtime can cause hallucinated payloads, unpredictable latency, and potentially higher costs. On the other hand, letting AI write its own code creates a sprawl of custom integration scripts that may be impossible to maintain in the long term."

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 25/09/2026

Unknown side effects, runtime uncertainty, and loop saturation are just some of the challenges AI agents face today. How can you fix this? "What I propose is to augment the existing API naming conventions with an operation taxonomy focused on behavior." apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-taxono...

The Taxonomy of API Operations

A behavioral classification system for machine-to-machine APIs.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 24/09/2026

"(...) if you are an API product manager, I think you are now also becoming the MCP product manager because, as we said, MCP is another kind of API." Great conversation with Emmanuel Paraskakis at apidays Paris last year. apichangelog.substack.com/p/mcp-is-jus...

Can API PMs manage MCPs? It’s the next logical step.

MCP Is Just an API

Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 24/09/2026

Anyone telling you that working with APIs is hard isn't telling the truth. What is hard isn't the API. It's all the tools, processes, and technical language surrounding it. apichangelog.substack.com/p/api-comple...

How some businesses live off API complexity while others sell simplicity.

API Complexity Is a Lie

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What do we actually mean when we talk about “AGI”? Enjoyed discussing this with @georgemusser.com for his latest piece in @sciam.bsky.social.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 23/09/2026

The MVP is dead When everyone can build quickly, what you choose to build and for whom becomes the whole game. notes.brunopedro.com/2026/09/23/2...

The MVP is dead, says Steve Blank

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 23/09/2026

You can choose the design of the API operation that will trigger your workflow once it’s called. You can decide what are the input parameters that you’ll accept via the API operation. You can even try to adapt the shape of the request. apichangelog.substack.com/p/exposing-w...

A screenshot of the Arazzo Visual Editor experiment, including input variables. In this example, you can see two input variables and three operations taken directly from an OpenAPI definition. The user is chaining the input variables and the operations together to form a workflow. For more context, there's a demo video from November 2025 available (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYaagA2yrdU).

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 23/09/2026

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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

what am I working on when i'm not writing new material for "AI-Driven API Design" w/ O'Reilly? I continue to run experiments to expand the functionality of my GRAIL autonomous ecosystem. here's a peek at a possible future for my current CLI environment. #api360 #apiDesign #genAI

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Observable @observablehq.com · 22/09/2026

Pack four mirrored spheres inside the four walls of a tetrahedron (a pyramid). Paint the walls red, green, blue, and white. Then shoot rays out of your eyes. As they bounce, you find that the regions colored each color all somehow share a coastline. observablehq.com/@nxrix/wada-...

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 22/09/2026

Why do we need a separate document to describe what an MCP server does, when the protocol already lets you inspect it live? apichangelog.substack.com/p/can-mcp-se...

Can MCP Servers Finally Get Their Own OpenAPI?

You shouldn't have to run an MCP server to know what it does.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 22/09/2026

If you don't know what the API Changelog newsletter is, here's a refresher: apichangelog.substack.com/about We are independent. We provide the “outside the bubble” perspective that leaders rely on to stay ahead. We’re not representing anyone’s voice except our own.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 22/09/2026

When engineering, product, and business teams refer to capability, they should be talking about the same thing, shouldn't they? apichangelog.substack.com/p/capabiliti...

Capabilities, Capabilities, Capabilities

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 21/09/2026

Random thought right now (perhaps because I'm wearing one): Why is it commonly accepted that bandages are mostly light skin color, but, at the same time, there are multiple tone emojis?

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 21/09/2026

Calendar-based versioning allows GitHub to introduce breaking changes regularly without upsetting API consumers. Consumers won’t get mad because they can pin their requests to a particular API version, so they’re sure it won’t contain any breaking changes. brunopedro.com/2022/12/01/c...

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Calendar-Based API Versioning - Bruno Pedro

Tim Rogers, a Product Manager at GitHub, recently announced that they are moving from incremental API versioning to something they’re calling “calendar-based.” The announcement explains what calendar-...

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026

If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI

This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 20/09/2026

I still have the same opinion I had about a year ago. I'm not saying that an HTTP 204 with an empty body is the only response to a DELETE operation. What I'm saying is that it's the best one. apichangelog.substack.com/p/http-204-i...

Post on LinkedIn with the content: "The best response for an HTTP DELETE operation is not an HTTP 200 status code with whatever response body you come up with. It's an HTTP 204 status code with an empty body."

This post received, until September 20, 2026, 195 likes, 86 comments, 6 reposts, and about 30k impressions.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 19/09/2026

European attitudes toward digital privacy and technology regulation are often dismissed in the US as technophobia. But there are distinct, historically grounded reasons why Europe has moved further and faster to regulate Big Tech, writes Enrique Dans, a professor at IE Business School, Madrid.

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Three reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before America did

European attitudes toward digital privacy and technology regulation are dismissed in the US as technophobia. But there are distinct, historically grounded reasons why Europe has moved further and…

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 19/09/2026

"Many APIs, you see, don’t provide an easy way to try them. Not even an easy way to get authorization credentials. Or, even easier, a basic sandbox where you can play before signing up." apichangelog.substack.com/p/interactiv...

Interactive API Testing as the Primary Interface

Nobody signs up for an API they haven't been able to try.

The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/09/2026

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Did you know you can watch "How Buildings Learn," the classic six-part BBC series (01997) completely free on YouTube? Scored by Brian Eno and based on Stewart Brand’s book, it's essential for any fan of architecture and Long Now lore. Find all the episodes here: www.youtube.com/@consarch775...

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 18/09/2026

100% true. And, honestly, one of the secrets to @nodejs.org's longevity is that we exactly built resilience to this into the governance. No single company can represent more than 1/3 of the TSC for instance. It's never perfect but with effort companies can participate rather than dominate.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 18/09/2026

Some companies openly hire people to "foster influence across open-source, enterprise, and partner communities." Or some other companies openly look for people who "hold positions of influence in open-source projects and organizations." notes.brunopedro.com/2026/09/18/2...

People can game open-source governance

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 18/09/2026

Should you define your API using AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, Smithy, or TypeSpec, just to name a few formats? Trusting an API specification format requires you to first trust the people who maintain it. apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

The Hidden Trust Problem in API Formats

How much should you trust OpenAPI and other formats?

Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 17/09/2026

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Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought

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How to Research Tools for Thought

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 17/09/2026

"We recently evolved the Logistics platform. The goal was not simply to move Java applications to Kubernetes. It was to engineer a zero-downtime deployment capability for software connected to physical automation, while keeping distribution centres running continuously." medium.com/@InditexTech...

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Engineering Zero-Downtime Deployments for Large-Scale Industrial Automation

At Inditex, Logistics connects the company’s brands with their customers through the physical flow of products. Distribution centres…

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fkilcommins @fkilcommins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Many integration workflows are a mix of REST and event-driven working in concert. That's exactly why Arazzo 1.1 added AsyncAPI support. Next week I'm joining the #AsyncAPI community to show how #Arazzo and AsyncAPI give agents a machine-readable map of those mixed workflows. 👉 luma.com/zhcf7zvq

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Making AI Agents Reliable Event-Driven API Consumers with Arazzo · Luma

AI agents are increasingly expected to act across any of your APIs, publishing to a queue, waiting on a webhook, correlating an async response, not just…

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 17/09/2026

The information you share should make it easier for features to behave independently. To make that happen, think about sharing information about things that already happened and that you believe can be interesting to other features. brunopedro.com/2022/10/19/e...

Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 16/09/2026

"The most common reason teams end up stuffing bodies into spans is that they want to reproduce something." Great thoughts by @matthewleray.bsky.social notes.brunopedro.com/2026/09/16/2...

A trace doesn’t tell you what was in the request that caused the error

Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026

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Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 16/09/2026

The amount of API quality a producer can control is quite limited! Most of the perception of quality is led by consumers. They're the ones who identify if an API is high-quality. We all agree that a high-quality API is critical. However, most people who run APIs don't know how to measure quality.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 15/09/2026

How do you measure pleasure, delight, or the desire to use a product? notes.brunopedro.com/2026/09/15/2...

Is design really measurable?

Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf.org · 15/09/2026

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Have an idea of interest to the IETF community or for potential work in the IETF? Submit a Birds of a Feather request for #IETF127 San Francisco (14-20 Nov 2026) by 18 Sept 2026: www.ietf.org/process/bofs

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 14/09/2026

"The solution, until now, has been to go through chat transcripts and tool request logs, trying to find a cause for the bad choice that led to a failure. Some teams have even been trying to repurpose traditional APM tools." apichangelog.substack.com/p/why-ai-age...