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Ask HN: Is SWE mostly just calling APIs?

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:22pm

Been thinking about this question more and more in the context of AI automation. A lot of SWE (apart from design and org politics) is just chaining calls to APIs.

Analysis is just calling APIs to get data. We use that to drive a decision and then we write code and use APIs to deploy it. We close the loops with the same data/metric APIs to verify our code achieved an outcome.

I wonder if this is why SWE seems so susceptible to automation - LLMs are great at chaining together calls to APIs.

Just a thought - I know there's a lot of diversity in SWE and this may not apply everywhere. I can think of holes in this line of reasoning (ex. we make decisions about the product during this process) but want to hear others' opinions.

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NPM audit passes malicious packages with no CVE

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:22pm

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Claude.ai "We are experiencing delivery issues with some email providers"

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:21pm

Am I the only one not able to access my Claude.ai account for the past few days because their email sending provider is no longer working for certain email domains?

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Sarvamai/Sarvam-105B

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:19pm
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T3 Code [video]

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:18pm
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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, March 7

CNET Feed - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:09pm
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for March 7.
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The Little Book of Algorithms

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:03pm
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Every Tool Progress Update

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:00pm

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Show HN: Glad-IA-Tor – Tired of Vibecoded Products? Come and Roast Them for Free

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 10:30pm

Roast AI products which are coming from all over the world.

Throw tomatoes and flip-flop on them.

And enjoy the rest of your day.

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