Marsh Gardiner
sociotechnical.org
What changes when everyone can code? Rethinking API product journeys in an LLM-world (KEYNOTE)
Talk
Every API begins as a technical contract. When we invite others to use it, that API transforms it into a product. By adding this social contract we move into a sociotechnical space.
The rise of LLMs has broadened the potential users of our API products. This challenges previous assumptions about our user base and prompts us to reexamine our approaches. How should the API product adoption journey evolve? How can OpenAPI and other documentation practices be optimized to support these new opportunities?
Speaker
Marsh spent 14 years at Apigee and Google in product management, imagining better tools and futures for APIs. He serves on the technical steering committee for OpenAPI, contributes to the CNCF's platform engineering working group, and is part of the aep.dev effort to codify API design patterns. He writes about these things at sociotechnical.org.
