“API Glue” is what I’ve called it since forever
Stuff comes in from an API goes out to a different API.
With a semi-decent agent I can build what took me a week or two in hours just because it can iterate the solution faster than any human can type.
A new field in the API could’ve been a two day ordeal of patching it through umpteen layers of enterprise frameworks. Now I can just tell Claude to add it, it’ll do it up to the database in minutes - and update the tests at the same time.
And because these are all APIs, we can brute-force it with read-only operations with minimal review times. If the read works, the write almost always will, and then it's just a matter of reading and documenting the integration before testing it in dev or staging.
So much of enterprise IT nowadays is spent hammering or needling vendors for basic API documentation so we can write a one-off that hooks DB1 into ServiceNow that's also pulling from NewRelic just to do ITAM. Consultants would salivate over such a basic integration because it'd be their yearly salary over a three month project.
Now we can do this ourselves with an LLM in a single sprint.
That's a Pandora's Box moment right there.
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