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mexicocitinluezyesterday at 5:59 PM1 replyview on HN

How does the definition of "implementing" change the fact that curl quite literally is an api client? It's an implemented api client.

> Seems like maybe you should take your own advice.

Seems like maybe if you have to use your own custom definition of a word in order to support a point you might not have one. lol.


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sophaclesyesterday at 8:26 PM

Nonsense, curl is a tool for executing a single http request.

Many apis require several requests to get things done. (one to auth, one or more to fecth resource ids, one or more to modify resources, etc).

That would be a series of curl calls with logic applied to the output of each call to curl. An api client just does those things in a single function call. The steps are the same, but in one case the AI has to figure out each curl call and implement the logic, rather than just call the function.

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