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		pdntspa on July 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Introduction to APIs It is even weirder to me how business has latched on to the term "APIs" like some kind of rabid dog biting into your ass Like, this is a fundamental aspect of how I interact with my job and business has taken the term and elevated it into its own distinct thing

booleandilemma on July 30, 2023 | [–]

I died a little inside the day a new hire, some kid fresh out of who knows where, shook my hand and asked "so are you an API developer?"

lloydatkinson on July 31, 2023 | [–]

The same way they latched onto agile, Agile, Scrum, DORA, and a bunch of other keywords.

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