
S2 E13 - Optionality, Complementarity & Design Rules
22/12/2025 | 59 mins.
In this episode, Mike, Stephen, and Matt are joined by Dr. Carliss Baldwin, Professor Emerita at Harvard University, Author of Design Rules Vol. 1 & Design Rules Vol. 2. Dr. Baldwin shares the story of how she originally connected the financial concept of option theory to modularization of technology, where options thinking could be applied in the post-AI world, and why complementarity is an equally important concept when analyzing digital ecosystems.

S2 E12 - API Risks and Rewards in the Age of AI
21/11/2025 | 56 mins.
In this episode, Ken Han and Baljeet Malhotra of Teejlab join Mike and Matt to discuss how to manage the spectrum of risks for APIs, how risk management relates to API discovery, and what new risks–and rewards–the explosion of AI technologies is creating in the world of APIs.

S2 E11 - From the origin of APIs to the future of AI
13/11/2025 | 1h
In this episode, Mike, Matt, and guest co-host Stephen Fishman sit down with Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. Tim recalls the origins of the API Economy and "Web 2.0", assesses the impacts of AI on the current digital landscape, and envisions the future of APIs–including MCP, open ecosystems, and the emergence of semantic networks.

S2 E10 - What will the API landscape look like in 2028? - Part 2
16/10/2025 | 44 mins.
In this episode, Mike and Matt continue their discussion on the post-GenAI API landscape. This time, they dive deeper into API protocols as well as predicting what the impact of AI will be on API security, traffic management, and the API economy as a whole.

S2 E9 - What will the API landscape look like in 2028
10/10/2025 | 35 mins.
In this episode, Mike and Matt speculate about the future of APIs in the post-GenAI world. They challenge conventional wisdom regarding API protocols, development lifecycles, discovery mechanisms and more with an eye to what organizations can do right now to prepare. Also tulips. :-)



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