The LemonData Blog

One developer, one AI coding assistant, 30 days. 274 API routes, 46 database models, 100,000+ lines of code. Here's what actually happened — the billing bugs, the 3 AM debugging sessions, and the seven patterns that kept breaking.

Traditional APIs are designed for human developers who read documentation. Agent-first API design flips this: structured error responses, self-correcting hints, and machine-readable endpoints that let AI agents recover from mistakes without human intervention.