AI Is Just an HTTP Request Now
24 Jul 2026 · 0 min

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Five years ago, building AI required hiring PhDs. Now you just make an HTTP request, send text, get text back. The speaker calls it magic and wonders if AI expertise is becoming obsolete.

Five years ago, building AI required hiring PhDs. Now you just make an HTTP request, send text, get text back. The speaker calls it magic and wonders if AI expertise is becoming obsolete.
5 years ago, if you wanted to do anything like with ML and AI, then you needed to hire a bunch of PhDs. Now you realize that AI is just an HTTP request. Text goes in, text come out. It's kind of magic, whatever happens in the middle, but you don't have to worry about that. Strange. The PhDs are dead as well. Is that our next dystopian topic?

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