Ask HN: Is SWE mostly just calling APIs?

Been thinking about this question more and more in the context of AI automation. A lot of SWE (apart from design and org politics) is just chaining calls to APIs.

Analysis is just calling APIs to get data. We use that to drive a decision and then we write code and use APIs to deploy it. We close the loops with the same data/metric APIs to verify our code achieved an outcome.

I wonder if this is why SWE seems so susceptible to automation - LLMs are great at chaining together calls to APIs.

Just a thought - I know there's a lot of diversity in SWE and this may not apply everywhere. I can think of holes in this line of reasoning (ex. we make decisions about the product during this process) but want to hear others' opinions.