[JCzynski]

I am extremely skeptical that autonomous APIs are possible without 90% of full natural language processing. Whatever we do to make APIs have their purposes be self-documenting, there will still be inferential gaps between what we say explicitly and what we mean.

We could adopt a highly rigid language describing what it is that an API provides and what purposes that data is useful for, but that's restrictive and very brittle, especially against Silicon Valley's favorite activity of disrupting established ways of doing things. Like going from proofs in ZFC to proofs in first-order logic, we can make it more stable but only at the cost of losing lots of power and expressiveness.