API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months

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1. What is the core idea behind "API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months"?

   1. API decisions are hard to undo. AI can review API designs against established patterns, surface forward-compatibility risks, and identify the decisions that look fine now but will hurt in production.
   2. It can split big chunks into small pieces.
   3. Ask AI to write a data migration that fills in defaults for old rows.
   4. Test that a deletion is safe in production.

2. Which term best describes a foundational idea in "API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months"?

   1. REST
   2. API design
   3. GraphQL
   4. versioning

3. A learner studying API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months would need to understand which concept?

   1. API design
   2. GraphQL
   3. REST
   4. versioning

4. Which of these is directly relevant to API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

   1. API design
   2. REST
   3. versioning
   4. GraphQL

5. Which of the following is a key point about API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

   1. Compare proposed designs against established patterns (REST conventions, GraphQL best practices)
   2. Surface forward-compatibility risks (rigid pagination, anemic versioning, fragile error formats)
   3. Identify decisions that look fine in v1 but will hurt by v3
   4. Generate the deprecation strategy for the API surface area

6. Which of these does NOT belong in a discussion of API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

   1. Surface forward-compatibility risks (rigid pagination, anemic versioning, fragile error formats)
   2. Identify decisions that look fine in v1 but will hurt by v3
   3. Compare proposed designs against established patterns (REST conventions, GraphQL best practices)
   4. It can split big chunks into small pieces.

7. Which statement is accurate regarding API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

   1. Catch every design issue (some only appear with real consumers)
   2. Replace the user research that should inform API design
   3. Substitute for the architect's judgment about the system's evolution
   4. It can split big chunks into small pieces.

8. What is the key insight about "API design review" in the context of API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

   1. It can split big chunks into small pieces.
   2. Ask AI to write a data migration that fills in defaults for old rows.
   3. Test that a deletion is safe in production.
   4. Review the proposed API design [paste]. Compare against: REST/GraphQL best practices, established patterns in [our compa…

9. What is the key insight about "External APIs are forever" in the context of API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

   1. Once external consumers integrate with your API, breaking changes cost months of customer pain.
   2. It can split big chunks into small pieces.
   3. Ask AI to write a data migration that fills in defaults for old rows.
   4. Test that a deletion is safe in production.

10. Which statement accurately describes an aspect of API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

    1. It can split big chunks into small pieces.
    2. API design decisions compound; AI surfaces the decisions that look fine now but will be expensive to reverse later.
    3. Ask AI to write a data migration that fills in defaults for old rows.
    4. Test that a deletion is safe in production.

11. Which best describes the scope of "API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months"?

    1. It is unrelated to ai-coding workflows
    2. It applies only to the opposite beginner tier
    3. It focuses on API decisions are hard to undo. AI can review API designs against established patterns, surface forw
    4. It was deprecated in 2024 and no longer relevant

12. Which section heading best belongs in a lesson about API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

    1. It can split big chunks into small pieces.
    2. Ask AI to write a data migration that fills in defaults for old rows.
    3. Test that a deletion is safe in production.
    4. What AI does well here

13. Which section heading best belongs in a lesson about API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

    1. What AI cannot do
    2. It can split big chunks into small pieces.
    3. Ask AI to write a data migration that fills in defaults for old rows.
    4. Test that a deletion is safe in production.

14. Which of the following is a concept covered in API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

    1. REST
    2. API design
    3. GraphQL
    4. versioning

15. Which of the following is a concept covered in API Design Review With AI: Catching the Decisions You'll Regret in 18 Months?

    1. API design
    2. GraphQL
    3. REST
    4. versioning