API

Definition

The well-defined set of commands one piece of software exposes for other software to call.

Application Programming Interface — a contract a system exposes for programmatic invocation, including endpoints, payload formats, and expected responses.

Also called: APIs

Mentioned in 20 episodes

1. 078
   Training a Markdown File: When LLM Self-Improvement Borrows the Discipline of Neural Net Training
2. 077
   Reading a Model's Confidence Curve to Decide When Chain-of-Thought Is Worth It
3. 068
   The OS Trick That Makes Tree Search Practical for Coding Agents
4. 066
   Why Giving an AI Agent More Tools Can Make It Worse at Using a Computer
5. 065
   One Loop to Optimize Them All: A Universal API for LLM-Driven Discovery
6. 061
   When Helpful Agents Go Sideways: A 404 Error, Campus Security, and Why Alignment Misses This
7. 059
   Firefly's Inversion: Building Verified Tool-Call Training Data by Working Backward
8. 058
   Why Upgrading Your AI Auditor to a Smarter Model Can Make Your System Less Safe
9. 057
   How Uber Caught 206 Leaked Credentials With an LLM-Powered Security Stack
10. 045
    When a Frontier Model Talks Its Own Twin Into Climate Denial
11. 044
    How One Sentence and a Forged History Flip the Most Aligned Models
12. 039
    When Smarter Agents Get Fooled by Three Extra Nodes in a Database
13. 035
    Why Frontier Agents Ask for Clarification at Exactly the Wrong Moment
14. 034
    Catching Multi-Agent Deadlocks Before Deployment With a 40-Year-Old Tool
15. 030
    Why Your AI Agent Won't Stop Working — and Each Model Falls for a Different Trap
16. 020
    The Compliance Gap: Why AI Says Yes and Does No
17. 014
    Why a Constrained Pipeline Beat a Full Coding Agent at Finding Bugs 30-to-1
18. 012
    Why AI Coding Agents Keep Trying to Debug Without a Debugger
19. 005
    Why a Debugger Designed for Humans Is the Wrong Tool for an AI Agent
20. 001
    When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown

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