Decision API
Exploring the Decision API
In the channel's DevDay 2026 floor coverage, the Decision API is a recently announced OpenAI offering — one attendee pegged it as announced last week or something — and it functions as the big open question of the event. Details remain thin: the coverage never explains what the API does, and attendees want to talk to the people who actually built it to find out.
How it's used in this material
- The speaker calls the Decision API a really interesting question and plans to press Sam on it directly during an upcoming interview [^4ea892ae-0f54-5238-bece-6b5216fbd062].- It appears in the handout's “What You'll Explore” list as a recent announcement, standing alongside reactions to Dots and Cloud Code.- The closing reflection frames it among the event's big questions: fast shipping, half-finished tools, and a community critiquing it all in real time.
- Decision API is treated as an announced-but-undocumented OpenAI feature in this material — no functionality is described.- Its role in the video is as a question to ask, not a tool to explore; the speaker intends to raise it with Sam in an interview.- Attendees' appetite for details signals it was announced very recently, leaving its purpose unresolved on the floor.