This AI timeline we are in sucks. AI is everywhere. AI is consuming and infiltrating every industry. To be honest, what I was doing before this moment wasn’t much better. The tech is just on steroids now. It’s in overdrive. Even immersed in AI as part of my work, I still feel the same as I did when all of this began unfolding a couple years back. I hate AI. It is a bad timeline. It isn’t healthy. It doesn’t have any good uses that matter. The good does not outweigh the bad.
I use AI everyday. The world of APIs is obfuscated and drowning in AI. The floodwaters are beginning to recede. But not fast enough. I have been able to find peace and attempt to save my career by calling bullshit on all of the claims. I’ve gone all in on what I am calling the Kin Score, to evaluate every company’s claim of being all in on AI and agentic, and whether or not they have the API foundation to do what they claim. It is the only path I found left for me amidst all the noise and chaos, hype and bullshit.
I use AI to do my research on companies, VCs, and enterprises playing in the API hustle. I use AI to generate the Kin Score. I use AI to showcase those who are sizing up and shame those who are not. It’s all stories. I’m just using their stories to push back with my stories. It’s not much different than the stories I have told about the technology, business, and politics of APIs, it is just more frenetic and chaotic. I’ve found a balance to it. I’m hoping I can also make a living for another couple years. I am in it for the stories. I am in it to keep paying the bills.
But, I hate AI. It sucks the soul out of everything. I want it gone. I want it to end. I use it, but you’ll never find me showcasing or championing it. I will actively shit talk it. I willingly walk this line. I insist on paying attention to the inputs and outputs of AI–APIs. I insist on measuring the levels of bullshit and hype. AI and the financialization of everything is endlessly dumb. But, here we are. Let’s keep on, keep’n on until we collectively find some balance with tech. I worry about us. I hope it is soon. Even with this concern I have a lot more fight in me. Let’s do this.
