Agentic APIs Have PTSD
Your APIs were designed for humans and orderly machines: clean request, tidy response, stateless, rate-limited. Then along came agentic AI—recursive, stateful, jittery little things that retry forever, chain calls together, and dream up new query paths at 3 a.m.
The result? Your APIs start looking less like infrastructure and more like trauma patients. Rate limits collapse. Monitoring floods. Security controls meant for human logins don’t make sense when the caller is a bot acting on its own intent.
The punchline: enterprises aren’t serving users anymore, they’re serving swarms of other AIs. If you don’t rethink throttling, observability, and runtime policy, your endpoints are going to get steamrolled.
Join host Lori MacVittie and F5 guest Connor Hicks to explore how enterprises can adapt and thrive—hit play now to future-proof your APIs!
Read AI Agentic workflows and Enterprise APIs: Adapting API architectures for the age of AI agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17443
Read AI Agentic workflows and Enterprise APIs: Adapting API architectures for the age of AI agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17443
Creators and Guests
Host
Lori MacVittie
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Evangelist at F5, Lori has more than 25 years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems' operation. She co-authored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and is a prolific author with books spanning security, cloud, and enterprise architecture.
Guest
Connor Hicks
Connor has been working in cloud security for over a decade, starting with building enterprise security products at 1Password. He then founded a company called Suborbital focused on securing untrusted code in the cloud with WebAssembly which was acquired by F5 in 2023, where he now works on AI security as an Architect.
Producer
Tabitha R.R. Powell
Technical Thought Leadership Evangelist producing content that makes complex ideas clear and engaging.
