Why APIs Are Still Broken in 2025 - Agentic Dev with Speakeasy | Episode #101
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
APIs power the modern internet—but they're still a pain to work with. In this episode, I sit down with Simon Yu, Co-founder of Speakeasy, to explore how they're transforming API development. From automated SDKs and Terraform providers to agent-ready MCP servers, Speakeasy is redefining how APIs are built, shared, and consumed. We also delve into how AI fits into the future of developer tooling and agentic workflows.
🔍 In This Episode:
- The persistent challenges in API development
- Simon Yu's journey from consulting to co-founding Speakeasy
- The evolution of Speakeasy's vision and mission
- How Speakeasy automates SDKs and infrastructure provisioning
- The role of AI in modern API ecosystems
- Preparing APIs for agentic workflows and MCP servers
- Real-world examples and lessons from industry leaders like Stripe and Flexport
- Speakeasy's roadmap and what's next for the platform
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| 0:00.0 | APIs are the backbone of modern software, yet building and maintaining them often feels like |
| 0:04.8 | navigating a maze of outdated docs, inconsistent SDKs and fragile integrations. |
| 0:10.2 | Throw in a little bit of AI, MCPs, agents, etc., etc., and it becomes even more cloudy. |
| 0:16.2 | Speak Easy is changing that, automating SDKs, terraform providers and documentation directly from your |
| 0:22.0 | open API specs. |
| 0:23.7 | Today I'm speaking with Simon New, co-founder and chief operating officer of SpeakEasy to explore |
| 0:29.7 | how they're redefining API development. |
| 0:32.0 | This is episode 101 of Great Things with Great Tech with SpeakEasy. |
| 0:35.8 | Thank you. of Great Things with Great Tech with Speak Easy. |
| 0:50.2 | Hey, Simon, welcome to the show, Episode 101. |
| 0:51.5 | Thanks for joining me in. |
| 0:57.4 | Let's get into the world of AI tooling, MCP, agents and all the great stuff that people are talking about today, very timely conversation obviously. |
| 1:02.6 | But before that, let's get into your background and talk about where you started in IT and |
| 1:08.9 | how you became to co-found the company Speak Easy. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, thank you so much for having me, Anthony. Great to be here. Congratulations on hitting |
| 1:17.6 | a milestone a number of episodes. Yeah, happy to dig into my background. So I started my career |
| 1:24.9 | actually in consulting as a management consultant and then did some investing. |
| 1:30.3 | I was an investor at a private equity firm that actually invested in tech companies. |
| 1:36.3 | Having spent a sort of a few years doing consulting and investing kind of got the operational itch. |
| 1:42.3 | You know, it's consulting and investing, obviously great jobs, but you kind of feel a little bit removed from the day to day and really wanted to myself see what it was like to build a company, build a product with my own hands. And so I ended up moving out to Silicon Valley, obviously the place to be if you want to work in tech and found |
| 2:03.9 | the job out here and had been here ever since, which is kind of shocking. I was supposed to be here for |
| 2:07.8 | about a year and it's been 14 now. There you go. I mean, obviously your accent there, it's British, |
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