A list of key finding to illustrate the impact of AIP Guidelines in the areas of API consumption and API production: API Production: Increased Requirement Fulfillment: A controlled developer experiment showed that developers using API Improvement Proposals (AIPs) and an API linter achieved a 10% higher requirement fulfillment rate compared to those without any protocols. Feedback Utility: Among developers using the linter tool alongside AIPs, 75% found it beneficial, aiding significantly in refining their API designs.

The core conflict of developer tools is Abstraction vs. complexity Jean Young https://future.com/the-case-for-developer-experience/