--- title: Kin Lane on AI and the Future of APIs | daily.dev description: Kin Lane (The API Evangelist) shares his perspective on AI's impact on the API landscape ahead of Nordic APIs Summit 2026. He argues that AI doesn't eliminate... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kin-lane-on-ai-and-the-future-of-apis-w5vsagycj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kin Lane on AI and the Future of APIs | daily.dev og:description: Kin Lane (The API Evangelist) shares his perspective on AI's impact on the API landscape ahead of Nordic APIs Summit 2026. He argues that AI doesn't eliminate... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kin-lane-on-ai-and-the-future-of-apis-w5vsagycj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/w5vSAGycj.png og:image:alt: Kin Lane on AI and the Future of APIs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kin Lane on AI and the Future of APIs **[Nordic APIs](https://daily.dev/sources/nordicapis)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kin Lane (The API Evangelist) shares his perspective on AI's impact on the API landscape ahead of Nordic APIs Summit 2026. He argues that AI doesn't eliminate core API design challenges — agents still depend on well-structured processes and reliable data flows. Lane warns that agentic AI consumption is accelerating data lock-in, as large cloud providers (Microsoft, Google, AWS) strengthen walled gardens and enterprises gravitate toward trusted ecosystems over third-party APIs. He draws a parallel between AI cost expectations and the cloud computing trajectory, predicting that AI spending will follow a similar path from initial optimism to expensive operational reality. Despite expecting the AI hype cycle to slow, Lane believes APIs are more critical than ever as the connective layer for data, infrastructure, and business workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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