Interview #79 Balaji Raghavan, Head of Engineering at Postman

About this episode

Balaji Raghavan discusses the gap between AI adoption and API readiness, highlighting challenges and security risks.

Join Balaji Raghavan, Head of Engineering at Postman, as he discusses the critical gap between AI adoption and API readiness, revealing that while 80% of developers use AI, only 24% design APIs with AI agents as the intended consumer. Drawing from Postman's 40 million developer user base, Raghavan explains how human-designed APIs create ambiguity problems for AI systems, requiring additional tooling layers that often introduce security vulnerabilities through proxy credentials and unauthorized access risks. He addresses the uncomfortable reality that the industry is still in early stages of making AI reliably call APIs at scale, with hallucinations and context limitations preventing effective orchestration across hundreds of endpoints, while warning that judicious leaders must distinguish between deterministic flows and cases where expensive AI-based approaches are truly necessary to manage infrastructure costs and prevent cascade failures.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Tony Hoang

Guest: Balaji Raghavan

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• API readiness
• developer tools
• security vulnerabilities
• infrastructure management

Keywords

• AI
• APIs
• developers
• security
• infrastructure
• Postman
• tooling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Postman

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