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The AI Pilot · № 09

Connected an AI to an API

Built a tool that connects an AI to a live external API and does something useful with the combined result.

The idea

APIs are where AI stops being a chat and starts being a tool. The first API call always breaks. Have your kid read the error message out loud, line by line. Most kids panic and ask AI to fix it for them. The skill is reading the error, finding the line that failed, and fixing it themselves. That habit is the difference between a builder and a chatbot user.

Steps
  1. Pick an API and a use case.
  2. Build the connection.
  3. Read every error message. Fix bugs yourself.
  4. Demo a working end-to-end run.
What counts

A working AI-plus-API system doing something useful end to end. A demo video is plenty.