Your New Favorite Rubber Duck: Using AI to Reflect, Review, and Refactor Your APIs

About this Meetup

Every developer knows the power of talking through a problem with a rubber duck—explaining your thinking out loud often reveals gaps and sparks insights. Today, AI is becoming the ultimate rubber duck. In this meetup, we’ll explore how LLMs are quietly transforming the way we design, review, and operate APIs and graphs.

We’ll share real examples from the community—using AI to spot schema inconsistencies, improve naming, enforce standards, and even rewrite gnarly queries. Whether you're debugging a tricky resolver or designing a new API from scratch, these tools can help you think more clearly, catch mistakes earlier, and move faster.

Bring your favorite AI-powered workflows, prompt techniques, or stories from the edge. Let’s talk about how these quiet copilots are already shaping the future of developer experience.

What You’ll Learn

• How developers are using AI to review, refactor, and improve GraphQL APIs.

• Prompting strategies to turn LLMs into effective design and debugging partners.

• Techniques for catching schema issues, enforcing standards, and rewriting queries with AI.

• Real-world examples of AI as a “rubber duck” for clearer thinking and faster development.

What is the Apollo Community?

The Apollo Community brings together strategic API thought leaders and GraphQL practitioners in a shared safe place that offers encouragement, support, confidence, guidance, career networking, and architectural and social proof points necessary to make each champion more confident and more effective in their efforts to advance federated GraphQL.