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In an agentic world, software's value lives in the underlying data and business logic, not in the UI workflow layer that humans used to interact with.
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A personal API should expose things about you — like your coffee order — so agents and humans don't have to ask.
Maddie built a personal API that surfaces things like her coffee order, pets, and favorite snacks, designed for both human and AI agent consumption. ✦ AI generated
Episode description / show notes (Maddie Reese featured) · Lenny's Newsletter · 2026-07-27 · original ↗
What belongs in a personal API and why agents, not just humans, will be the ones using it
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