GenAI: Producing and Consuming APIs by Paul Dumas, Gartner
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The document discusses the implications of generative AI (GenAI) in software development, emphasizing its role in producing and consuming APIs, which is expected to transform developer roles to be more strategic and intuitive. By 2027, it predicts that 90% of enterprises will utilize AI tools in application development, and by 2026, over 70% of independent software vendors will embed generative AI capabilities in their applications. The presentation highlights the importance of enhancing developer productivity and addresses key questions leaders have regarding the integration of AI into their software engineering practices.
GenAI: Producing and Consuming APIs by Paul Dumas, Gartner
- 1. © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. or its affiliates. This presentation, including all supporting materials, is proprietary to Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is for the sole internal use of the intended recipients. Because this presentation may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or otherwise legally protected, it may not be further copied, distributed or publicly displayed without the express written permission of Gartner, Inc. or its affiliates. GenAI: Producing and Consuming APIs Paul Dumas Senior Director Analyst
- 2. 2 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. What You Will Takeaway GenAI will produce APIs and code to consume APIs 01. 02. API Engineers will be strategic and intuitive
- 3. GenAI API Role Build Plan Deploy Buil d Publish Deprecate Retir e Run Producing APIs Developing Applications that consume APIs GenAI: API Consumption • API Discovery • Code (API Invocation) Generation • Test Generation • API Specification • Test Generation • Documentation GenAI: API Production
- 4. 4 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates.
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- 6. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 6 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The May 2023 Gartner IT Leader Poll on Generative AI for Software Engineering: • 13% of respondents are using AI coding assistants • 36% are currently investigating • 52% of respondents will use GenAI to build software in the future How to Use Generative AI to Boost Developer Productivity
- 7. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 7 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Application development: • By 2027, 90% of enterprises will actively use AI tools in their software development • Developers will transition to more strategic, creative and value-driven roles Invest Implications: Top 3 Infrastructure Software Markets Impacted by Generative AI
- 8. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 8 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Build an API… I need… Schemas API Standards API Documentation API Use Cases
- 9. 9 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. APIs Human Built Tool Built GenAI Built
- 10. 10 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. Brass String Wind Orchestrate
- 11. 11 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. Common Notation 440hz Tuning Orchestration
- 12. 12 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. API Design Standards API Documentation APIs Orchestration
- 13. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 14 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. By 2026, more than 70% of independent software vendors (ISVs) will have embedded generative AI capabilities in their enterprise applications
- 14. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 15 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LLMs as API Consumers • Drives requirement for publishing API metadata, which LLMs consume • Rate-limiting more important than ever "What is new today in 2023 is the rise of a new kind of API consumer—generative AI. LLMs can process OpenAPI descriptions and then use that API to solve problems. With generative AI’s ability to understand natural language, OpenAPI can help bring the power of APIs to non-developers with a level of accessibility never seen before. To fully realize this potential, API producers should decorate their mechanical descriptions of HTTP requests with details that convey the meaning and purpose of those API operations. This, in turn, helps both people and LLMs to achieve better results.“ https://www.openapis.org/blog/2023/12/06/openapi-moonwalk-2024
- 15. GenAI & AI Roles Build Plan Deploy Buil d Publish Deprecate Retir e Run Producing APIs Developing Applications that consume APIs AI: API Client • Unified APIs for AI Access • AI Assisted Prompt Engineering • AI Response Augmentation GenAI: API Consumption • API Discovery • Code (API Invocation) Generation • Test Generation • API Specification • Test Generation • Documentation GenAI: API Production
- 16. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 17 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. By 2026, nearly 80% of prompting will be semiautomated How to Choose an Approach for Deploying Generative AI
- 17. API Responsibility API Specification Generate Gatekeeper Test Scripts Generate Gatekeeper Documentation Generate Gatekeeper API Invocation (Code) Generate Gatekeeper Prompt Engineering Assist Owner API Solution Architecture NA Owner
- 20. 21 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. Takeaways GenAI will produce APIs and code to consume APIs 01. 02. API Engineers will be strategic and intuitive
- 21. Reliability Acceptance Governance Cost of Orchestration Offsets Productivity Black Box Conditions Existing APIs Lacking Specifications GenAI Cautions
- 22. RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 23 © 2024 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How can I improve developer experience to improve productivity and retention? How can I ensure that security is built into the software engineering process? Top questions from other leaders Software engineering leaders turn to Gartner to answer their most pressing questions across today’s top issues How can I make the business case for and then implement platform engineering? How should my teams be leveraging AI coding assistants to increase the quality of our code? How can I justify investment from leadership to fix technical debt? How can I measure and improve developer productivity? How should my platform engineering teams augment DevOps using AI? How can I best leverage open-source while still meeting reliability and security requirements? How can I better leverage AI in Design to speed delivery of a better UX? How can I optimize our use of outsourced development teams?
- 23. 24 © 2023 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. Access to Gartner research is subject to entitlement. For information, please contact your Gartner representative. Gartner Recommended Research • How to Use Generative AI to Boost Developer Productivity Keith Mann, Frank O'Connor (G00796876) • Data on Generative AI: Board Presentation Justin Tung, Rita Sallam (G00805482) • Innovation Guide for Generative AI Models Arun Chandrasekaran, Arnold Gao, Ben Yan (G00800194)