An API-first approach is essential for AI tools to work well. Agentic systems like Claude Code and Cursor are only as powerful as the integrations they can access, so any tool that doesn't integrate seamlessly becomes unusable.
API first, making sure that your data talks to each other. And I'll tell you where it really clicks. And if you're a digital leader listening to this, once you start operating out of systems that are truly agentic, like Claude Code, like Codex, where you can control systems through natural language and you recognize that modern AI tooling, like in the last 2 months, uh, is only as good as the integrations that it has. You don't want to go back to doing something that doesn't have that. Like, for me, I'm not using a project management system that I have to go write tickets manually in. If it doesn't integrate into the Agentic tooling that I'm using with Cloud Code and Codex and Cursor in some of these areas, I'm shutting down that subscription. I'm moving.
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