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Mike Amundsen

@mamund.bsky.social
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Working to improve the quality and usability of information on the Web with APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation

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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"... here is the affordance test I would put to any leadership team spending money on AI this year. Not “what can it do?” but: who, specifically, will this afford new action to, and who will it not?" -- #BillyMashele b.mamund.com/4zdCgMO #api360 #genAI #affordance
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‘AI for good’ starts with affordances, not features
The affordance lens exposes the harms that capability-talk hides, as the most consequential governance risk in enterprise AI today is not a rogue chatbot.
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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People overcomplicate writing specs for AI agents. Break it down to: What is needed to do the task? What tools, what data, what memory? An agent is just a software that acts on input. Spec it like one. #ProductManagement #AI
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Being successful at creating (semi)autonomous agents means getting really good at implmenting anti-corruption/mapping layers between agents and services. MCP is one attempt (JSON 2.0) but we'll need more thinking on this before agency is common and reliable and cost-effective. #genAI #api360
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You follow my (slow) progress here: github.com/mamund/grail... We're still on the CLI phase ATM but several experiments are available.
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GitHub - mamund/grail-public: shared content on GRAIL framework
shared content on GRAIL framework. Contribute to mamund/grail-public development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Waiting to board the first leg of my flight to California (CVG-DTW-SFO) for this week's #apiWorld. #api360 #apiDesign #genAI
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David Giard @davidgiard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Monday on #TechnologyAndFriends: Mike Amundsen (@mamund.bsky.social) on AI Coaches That Amplify Expertise
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Had d great time catching up
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Heading to #GOTO #Accelerate Chicago for a couple days of workshops and sessions. #api360
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API Evangelist @apievangelist.com · 19/06/2026
I keep coming back to the problem of scaling the onboarding, the setting up of applications, and the obtaining of API keys across many different APIs. The differences in how every API provider handles this keep leaving me hitting a brick wall. apievangelist.com/2026/06/19/s...
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SoundCloud Shows What Programmatic API Onboarding Should Look Like
I keep coming back to the problem of scaling the onboarding, the setting up of applications, and the obtaining of API keys across many different APIs. The di...
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
fell down a rabbit hole this past week and built TRAM. TRAM explores a narrow problem: How do we make API behavior expectations directly visible, portable, executable, and reviewable? github.com/mamund/2026-...
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Heading to Austin, TX for #WSO2Con this week. I'll be talking about AI-driven API design. See you there! #api360 #genAI
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Starting my journey to API Conference ( share.google/ZpnvmZ5NerBN... ) London where I'll present the "AI-Driven API Design" workshop and a talk on AI-Ready APIs. Hope to see you there! #apiConference #api360 #apiAndAI
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Heading to Austin, TX for a week of #ArcOfAI. Should be an interesting week. #api360
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Took me about 90 minutes to submit a claim for what will likely be a paltry remuneration for the use of my books in the Anthropic settlement. Filing it anyway. If you want to know what I *really* think, see my substack post from last year: mamund.substack.com/p/from-sheet... #carryOn
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I’ll be speaking at O’Reilly’s AI Codecon: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI on March 26. The event begins at 11:00am ET. Join us to explore what it takes to build excellent software in the age of AI that creates value for all participants. Sign up now — for free! bit.ly/3MUmK6g
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"MCP is a hypermedia proxy." #changeMyMind
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’ll be speaking at O’Reilly’s AI #Codecon: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI on March 26 at 11:00am ET. I'll be showing off my interactive AI tooling : "From Automation to Augmentation: Designing AI Coaches That Amplify Expertise" Sign up now to save your spot—for free! bit.ly/3MUmK6g
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
similar sentiments from the man who created the ELIZA chatbot in the 1970s mamund.substack.com/p/weizenbaum...
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Weizenbaum’s Four Warnings for the AI Era
When computational capability turns into institutional authority
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"The milieu in which Technopoly flourishes is one in which the tie between information and human purpose has been severed, i.e., information appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning, or purpose." -- ibid
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems." -- Neil Postman in the book Technolopy (1992) #thinkingWithMachines #genAI
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 14/02/2026
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"Why is it the things you want in life are there only for an instant?" -- Burt Lancaster as Starbuck in Rainmaker #movies #quotes
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"The forest will always be larger than any beam of light we bring into it.” Good API design is less about exposing everything and more about helping people navigate to their chosen location. See the full article here: mamund.substack.com/p/the-flas
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely lights and wires in a box.” -- Edward R. Murrow, 1958 #history #future #AI
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Arc of AI Conference @arcofai.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Turn AI into your API co-developer!🤖 Join Mike Amundsen to learn how AI tools like ChatGPT can help design APIs, produce structured documentation, automate tests, & speed up development workflows in this workshop. www.arcofai.com/speaker/dcf2c48d9dd… 🎟️ :arcofai.com
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack : NPR share.google/TbxnoIQicrkb...
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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Language does not lead to intelligence; intelligence leads to language. Animals plan, adapt, and solve problems without words, and human infants do the same long before speech appears. We should not expect AGI to emerge from language, but from intelligence that can use language. #agi #genAI
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 22/12/2025
Api Versioning - A deep dive | by Irina Scurtu buff.ly/irzIL6n #apis #apidesign #programming #versioning
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Api Versioning - A deep dive
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
solid insights from the trenches from Jesse Amundsen: jesseamundsen.github.io/2025-11-30-m... "It turned out that my relentless pursuit of automation and the creation of software that offloaded my efforts didn’t end my job, it just changed it." #data #api #ai
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Continually making myself obsolete didn't work | Jesse Amundsen
I used to joke that my job was to continually make myself obsolete. In the current atmosphere of anxiety surrounding the threat posed by AI to job security, that old quip now sounds like an odd positi...
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
After a great week at #FOST and #apidays Paris I am boarding my first flight of my Atlantic trek home to KY.
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
You are so right. I didn't think I'd make it this year; very lucky. I miss the deep convos we had, too. Will pass your greetings to the group and we'll all offer a toast in your honor. Cheers
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
At Cincinnati airport to start my #apiDays Paris adventure (CVG-DTW-CDH). Typical weather delays at Detroit but still optimistic for my chances to arrive on time in Paris without too much drama. #mcaTravels #api360
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Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hey I'm gonna be in Paris all of next week if anyone is there and wants to talk digital ecosystems with me?!
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Heading home after a great experience at #apiConf #Clearwater FL this week. Hope to return next year. #mcaTravels
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James Pozenel @lectrotext.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Sale on things. Things you don’t need to survive. Things to help you kill societal anxiety. Wait a minute! horsesharkgames.com/store
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Still a few seats available for my "Making Your APIs AI-Ready" live materclass at #apiDays Paris Register for a 25% discount with MIKEMASTERCLASS Hope to see you there! b.mamund.com/4rjYVUO #apiDesign #genAI
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Wheels down at TPA.
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Heading to #APIConf in Clearwater FL this week for two days if #APIs and #genAI #mcaTravels
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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thinking about using AI personas for user interviews? Don’t. Use AI to prep smarter questions, but always talk to real users. #ProductManagement #UXResearch #AItools
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platformable.bsky.social @platformable.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We’ve just launched our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard, aiming to become an ecosystem view of digital health in each country. Have a look at our beta release and let us know what you think: platformable.com/blog/global-...
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Introducing our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard
Before building out a digital health go to market strategy, or embarking on a digital health initiative in any country, it is important to be able to understand the digital health policy context. The ...
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There is still time to sign up for my Nov-11 "AI-Driven API Design" live course hosted by O'Reilly. Register here: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/... #api360 #genAI
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 30/10/2025
From structured specs to real-world examples, discover how to make your API documentation readable for both humans and AI.
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How to Optimize API Documentation for AI Discoverability | Nordic APIs |
Learn how to optimize API documentation for AI discoverability with structured data, examples, and other best practices.
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
after months of working on my GRAIL system for enabling autonomous agents, i think i might be recreating the Unity game engine for APIs. is that a good thing, tho? #genAI #GRAIL
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Pragmatic Dog Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
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Mike Amundsen @mamund.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash b.mamund.com/3KXp1fp "Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped ... and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Jon Udell @jonudell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/technology/2025… mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/11539522…
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the roamer (@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk)
GenAI and what it does to the brain. Truly excellent "long read" article about genAI and what it does to those who come to rely on it. Well researched, with insightful quotes from thoughtful people. Good science/tech journalism used to be like that, but on AI topics this has become rare. So much easier for the salaried writer of a mainstream paper just to follow the hype. The author, Sophie McBain, is listed as a "freelance writer" for Guardian, Times and New Statesman. I am glad she's kept her free mind. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology #brain #learning #noAI #StopTheAICorruption #SophieMcBain
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