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Erik Wilde is a legend in the API space. He's had a monumental impact on how many of us think about API design, governance, and digital evolution today.

Erik spent many years at Axway where he worked closely with some of the largest organizations in the world on API strategy and governance. Today, he is an OAI Ambassador at the OpenAPI Initiative, runs his own YouTube channel “Getting APIs to Work”, and continues to help organizations align APIs, business capabilities, and real-world outcomes.

At Jentic, Erik is now focused on a question many teams are struggling with:

"How do you make large, complex API landscapes actually work in an AI-driven world, without breaking everything you already have?"

In this episode, Erik joins us for an honest conversation about APIs, AI readiness, and why most enterprises are still thinking about API design at the wrong level. We dig into what breaks when agents meet real-world API landscapes, why fine-grained APIs do more harm than good for AI, and how intent-driven API orchestration is the missing layer between legacy systems and the future of intelligent automation.

Hosted by Stefan Avram and Jens Neuse, this episode blends deep technical insight with real-world enterprise experience, covering everything from API design and governance to AI bubbles, agent architectures, and why most API problems are organizational problems, not technical ones.

In this conversation, we get into:
- Why API design and governance still matter more than ever, especially in the age of AI
- What “AI-ready APIs” actually mean, and what most teams get wrong
- Why many AI projects fail before they even get started
- Why fine-grained APIs overwhelm agents and LLMs
- Why narrow REST APIs are the wrong interface for AI, and what should sit on top instead
- What it really takes for startups to earn trust with large enterprises

If you have ever worked with APIs at scale, struggled with governance, or wondered how AI really fits into existing enterprise systems, you’ll enjoy this one.

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HOW TO FIND ERIK

Find Erik Wilde and "Getting APIs To Work" here: https://www.youtube.com/@ErikWilde
Erik's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikwilde/

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Watch this episode here: How to Make Your APIs Work for AI | Erik Wilde (Jentic)

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