Juan Cruz Viotti on JSON Schema, the Invisible Infrastructure Powering APIs and LLMs

Juan Cruz Viotti on JSON Schema, the Invisible Infrastructure Powering APIs and LLMs

June 2, 2026 · 19 min

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Juan Cruz Viotti discusses the significance of JSON Schema in APIs and AI with host Rachel Stephens.

JSON Schema might be the most important technology you've never thought about. In this MonkCast, Rachel Stephens sits down with Juan Cruz Viotti, founder of SourceMeta and member of the JSON Schema Technical Steering Committee. They discuss how JSON Schema is the backbone of OpenAPI specs and just might be the language of AI. Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/ juan-cruz-viotti-json-schema / Chapters 00:40 - What is JSON Schema? 03:00 - JSON Schema in OpenAPI and AI 05:30 - Challenges in API Ecosystem Management 07:00 - Siloed API Specs and Governance Issues 08:00 - Benefits of Schema Layer Governance 09:30 - JSON Schema as a Data Dictionary 11:00 - JSON Schema in AI and Code Generation 13:30 - SourceMeta's Ecosystem and Tools 16:00 - Small Teams and Infrastructure Innovation 16:50 - AI, Documentation, and Data Semantics 17:30 - Vision of the Future

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Host: Rachel Stephens

Guest: Juan Cruz Viotti

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Organizations: SourceMeta, JSON Schema Technical Steering Committee, OpenAPI

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