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API design and documentation generation

API design and documentation generation

- [Instructor] All right, so the next thing that we're gonna take a look at here is how we can use generative AI for API design and documentation. When you're designing a piece of code that's gonna be used by other developers, it's very important that you put some thought into what that design's going to be, and also provide whoever's gonna be using it with the appropriate documentation so that they can figure out how to use it. Now, the good news with this kind of thing is that it's pretty standardized. And so if we say something like design a REST API for maybe something like a simple task manager, so a simple task manager app. And let's just give it some details about the endpoints. We'll say something like with endpoints to create, retrieve, and complete tasks. And that should be all we need there. So what we're gonna do here is we're just going to click enter. And so what we're gonna see is that it will do a…

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