{"id":37775,"date":"2026-02-19T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=37775"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:03:37","slug":"aaron-levie-on-apis-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/aaron-levie-on-apis-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Levie on API\u2019s First"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a world of openclaw, codex, claude code\/cowork, manus, and other agentic systems, it\u2019s becoming clear that the future of software has to be API-first, but also enable human interaction for verification, collaboration with agents and people, and working on the output.<\/p>\n

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– @signulll’s post critiques Aaron Levie’s vision of API-first software for AI agents, arguing it risks commoditizing many companies by shifting value to composing layers like agents, which could replicate business logic via prompts and tool calls.<\/div>\n
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– Levie counters that durable moats lie in business logic, data governance, security, and user workflows requiring human verification, predicting network effects will eventually stabilize architectures amid current experimentation.<\/div>\n
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– The thread highlights tensions in AI-driven software evolution, with replies noting open-source agents could accelerate deflationary pressures, while regulated or stateful APIs (e.g., financial rails) retain defensible value.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Aaron Levie \u2066\u202a@levie\u202c\u2069 In a world of openclaw, codex, claude code\/cowork, manus, and other agentic systems, it\u2019s becoming clear that the future of software has to be API-first, but also enable human interaction for verification, collaboration with agents and people, and working on the output. It\u2019s   2\/16\/26, 11:45\u202fPM     – @signulll’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}