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API-first in practice: what changes when the spec is the source of truth
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API-first in practice: what changes when the spec is the source of truth

The phrase is used to mean four different things. Only one of them changes how your team works, and it is the one that makes the spec a build input rather than a report.

September 10, 2026

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