The Weekly API Cocktail – Issue #5

Each week we carefully handpick content about APIs, AI and the evolution of our jobs in software engineering. Yes, by «hand» we mean a part of an actual human.

This week's top picks, trying to get back to my original Tuesday morning schedule (so hard to keep it up ...)

• I'm rebelling against the algorithm: a statement to fight about time-hungry algorithmic «news» feeds.

• The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes: Europe has become dangerously dependent on American technology infrastructure, from cloud services and SaaS platforms to operating systems and chips.

• Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice (also here): let's see if the law is stronger than tech giants or the other way round.

#tech

• Log by time, not by count: a short piece about better logs.

• What’s Happening With Entry-Level Development Jobs?: how generative AI coding assistants are shrinking entry-level developer job opportunities.

• Lessons from Launching and Growing a Freight Transportation Platform: insights from five years as the first full-time employee at a freight transportation company.

#apis

• What Happens When AI Starts Writing Your APIs?: how AI's ability to quickly generate APIs is creating a new class of security risks and technical debt.

• Defining Mock Data Using OpenAPI Overlays: an idea on how to attach mock data to formal specs without bloating the spec size.

#genai

• OpenAI Debuts AI Agent That Controls Browsers To Automate Shopping, Presentations: we started to talk about the «AI browser war» last week, take your popcorns and enjoy the show.

• Using Gen AI for Early-Stage Market Research: use genai as a tool to simulate customer feedback during product development stages, providing fast cost-effective results.

• Nobody knows how to build with AI yet: true expertise in using AI tools for development may still be elusive and requires further learning.

#tools

• viz: Claude Memory MCP Visualizer

• rulesync: creating and managing multiple AI tools' configurations

• ccusage: command-line utility designed to analyze token usage and costs of Claude Code

• microverse: lightweight macOS application designed for efficient system monitoring of battery health, CPU, and memory

• context42: maintaining consistent coding styles across projects and languages

• modern: pytest plugin that enhances the testing framework with modern outputs and ideas

That’s all, folks! See you next week.