Designing for Intelligence: Rethinking APIs, Databases, and Interfaces

“Our new AI assistant can answer any finance question—except when our own API names get in its way.” That was the hard‑earned lesson I learned while developing an LLM‑powered chatbot in our platform. AI Agent as a New Interface Layer AI agent powered by large language models (LLMs) is becoming an increasingly important component in modern tech stacks. Think of AI agents as a new kind of middle…