The real competitor is a shell script in a crontab, and it usually looks like this: curl -s "https://api.example.com/v1/launches?limit=100" \ | jq -r '.data[] | [.id, .name, .net] | @csv' \ | sqlite3…
An agent edits the wrong config file, then spends forty minutes trying to repair its own repair. The user files a bug with a screenshot of the last message. The maintainer asks for logs, and the logs…
Point wrk at an MCP server and you get a clean report: every response a 200. Some of those 200s carry isError: true results, and nothing in the output says what the tool definitions cost the model on…
“The API is slow” starts a hunt. Somebody opens the APM dashboard, somebody else greps the load balancer logs, a third person checks whether the database is on fire. An hour later the team has three…
A team wants to delete GET /v1/invoices/{id}/legacy-pdf . A search across the main repo finds no caller, and the gateway logs show zero hits in the last 30 days. The route goes out in a cleanup PR. On…
You test an MCP server by chatting with it. Ask for the open bugs, get the open bugs, ship it. The model never sends limit: "ten" , an empty path or a 200 KB query while you’re watching, so those…
Ask a launch schedule API when a rocket flies and you get one date. Ask what the date was last Tuesday, or how many times it has moved, and there’s no endpoint for that. Most APIs describe the…
Your OpenAPI file marks shipping_address as required on GET /orders/{id} . After Tuesday’s deploy, about one response in 300 leaves it out, because a new code path for orders created by the import job…
The first version of an API cache is a dictionary with a timeout. The second is Redis holding a JSON string under a key built from the URL. The third gets written after an incident, when somebody…
A repository has 300 integration tests that each send a prompt to a model. The suite runs on every push to every branch, then again in the merge queue. Most of those runs don’t touch a prompt (the…