AI
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Android
Apple
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Bash
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Csharp
The eternal struggle of API development in one perfect image. On one side, we've got the "Virgin API Consumer" - chained by OAuth, rate limits, and enough verification steps to make the DMV jealous. Poor soul thinks they're making life easier while submitting DNA samples just to fetch some JSON.
Meanwhile, the "Chad Third-Party Scraper" is living his best digital life with Selenium, cURL, and regex abominations that would make your CS professor weep. This absolute madlad crashes backends, dodges JavaScript protections, and outsources CAPTCHA solving to some poor souls for pennies.
The true comedy? Companies spend millions on API security while Chad's weekend project scrapes their entire database before lunch. Ten years in the industry and I've never seen anything more accurate than "429 Too Many Requests" vs "promising career at high-frequency trading firm."
