Right for the Wrong Reasons: The Unstoppable Rise to 2 Billion APIs
F5, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
F5's Lori MacVittie revisits its 2 billion API prediction, now driven by AI agents instead of human developers.
F5 Distinguished Engineer Lori MacVittie revisits the company's earlier prediction of 2 billion active APIs by 2030, confirming the forecast is on track but for different reasons than originally modeled.
Rather than human developers driving API creation, autonomous AI agents are now generating APIs at machine speed. The piece warns this is creating a governance crisis, citing an estimate that 78% of IT executives cannot account for all APIs in their infrastructure.