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AI Coding Agents Don't Understand APIs—They Memorize Them

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

AI coding agents often hallucinate endpoints, miss headers, and mix API versions because they memorize APIs rather than understanding them. A new open-source tool, Scout, synthesizes OpenAPI specs and documentation into grounded context for both humans and agents. The product is the shared context, not the generated code or chat interface.

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Scout addresses a real pain point, but its success depends on whether developers adopt yet another tool in their workflow.
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