Every essay since 2015 — newest first. Explore by topic: AI Strategy · The Agentic Web & MCP · Engineering Leadership · or start with the curated guide.
APILama has been my notebook since 2015: APIs and the semantic web first, then startups and engineering leadership, and now AI strategy and the agentic web. Below is every essay, newest first.
Good places to start
- The APILama Tech Manifesto — the argument that ties everything together.
- From DeepGraphs to MCP — how a decade-old research idea became the agentic web.
- The AI ROI Reality Check — what 45 global tech leaders report about enterprise AI.
- The 20x Team Manifesto — why small, AI-powered teams outperform.
- An Introduction to APIs — the 2015 primer that started the blog’s API thread.
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How I Run a Team of AI Agents with Grok Bot (and What Broke)
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The Three-Body Problem Has One Force. Your Team Has Six.
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Amazon Never Went MCP-First
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Eleven Years of APILama in 45 Seconds (From a One-Sentence Prompt)
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We Fixed the Engine and Threw Away the Map
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How I Used AI to Navigate Greek Bureaucracy (and Win a Case Everyone Dismissed)
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The Revolutions I Lived Through: Twenty Years of Technology Handing Me Leverage
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AI and Authenticity: My Writing Process
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Look Up: Why I Wrote the APILama Tech Manifesto
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The Temporal Knowledge Ark: What to Memorize Before You Time Travel
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The Open Source Loophole: Why Software Licenses Are Broken in the Age of AI Agents
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The AI ROI Reality Check: Notes from the Trenches with 45 Global Tech Leaders
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The Future of Tech: Balancing AI Tools and Human Talent
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The 100x Agent Illusion: Why We Must Engineer the System, Not Just the Code
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Upgrading the Model Context Protocol: The Future of AI Agents