Should AI Friendliness Be a Priority for Software Projects?

Summary

A Hacker News post asks whether software projects should deliberately serve AI as a primary consumer. The author argues that a reasonable MCP server and an AI-focused README should become priorities, using the Apate API mocking and prototyping server as an example. The author says the project was originally designed for capable human developers, but now imagines AI writing its API-mocking DSL dynamically while developing the application that consumes the API. A commenter rejects treating human and AI needs as opposing choices, arguing that good tools benefit developers and agents alike. The discussion also notes that companies are investing more in documentation during the AI hype cycle, while warning that documentation produced with too much AI can contain serious errors, with Atlassian given as an example.