Agents Don't Magically Understand Your API

There is a fantasy loose in the industry right now that AI has dissolved the hard parts of working with APIs. Point an agent at your systems, the story goes, and it will figure out the rest–discover your endpoints, infer your business logic, reconcile your inconsistent naming, and stitch together a workflow no human ever documented. It is a seductive story because it lets everyone skip the part of the job they never liked.