APIs have long provided a way for computers to communicate with each other.

“Uh, these are just all extra, you know, burning of tokens for things that probably don't need to be... need, need to happen. You know, the, the website usually knows what data... And, and, you know, we've had things like this call- you know, we've had APIs, uh, you know- ... ways that computers talk to each other for years.”