I let AI build my API. Here’s what happened (building an app with an AI LLM, part four)


 

Building an API with AI is fast, but it’s not hands-off. In this article, Grant Fritchey uses Microsoft CoPilot and GitHub Copilot to generate a secure REST API for his built-by-AI application, dbRosetta, by connecting a PostgreSQL database to a future WordPress front end via Azure. Learn the full process, and discover exactly what worked – and what didn’t.

I don’t want to burden our support team (they’re awesome, but busy), so decided to initially host dbRosetta at ScaryDBA.com — a site I control fully, where an accidental mistake won’t take down Redgate. Before developing the next prompt, I discussed