This is a *very* selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs [Code Camp Video Interview][1]:

### Purpose
Please note that this transcript fragment is mainly a supporting post to decrease the length of [Could/Should the API evolve more agile rather than being blocked by v2 writing (and authentication) features?][2] and as such only **intended as an orientation** for those inclined to view the original quote and not necessarily accurate/precise regarding wording/phrasing! Feel free to correct/amend things, but please keep this intention in mind, thanks!

### Legend

 * MH is [Mehul Harry][3], JA is [Jeff Atwood][4]

###Topic: mobile site  

 * JA (19:00): I'm kinda torn on this [...] it splits
   your effort

 * JA (20:04): on Stack
   Overflow it's not the primary goal to
   be a mobile site

###Topic: Stack Apps API  

 * JA (20:16): [...] read only [...] very hard problem with content coming from an API [...] we are not trying to solve that  

 * MH (20:40): *Why is that hard, to allow to posting content?*  

  * JA (20:44): [...] duplicate handling [...] hints [...] none of that would be visible from an API [...] that's probably the main concern, and then there are rate limiting issues and [...]  

  * JA (21:14): Another argument of splitting effort, rather than having content coming in on just one pipe, where we can apply the same rules to, now we have this other pipe [...]  

 * MH (21:24): *You don't want to take away the value that's part of the UI?*  

  * JA (21:28): Yeah, the UI is helping [...] there's a lot of ambient information present on the website, how would that even be presented in an external app we can't control? I'm fine with reading [...] but one of the quickest way to ruin a Q&A system is to flood it with bad questions - now I'm not sayin having a write API would cause that, but anything that risks that is a very very serious risk.


  [1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/code-camp-video-interview/
  [2]: http://stackapps.com/questions/1804/could-should-the-api-evolve-more-agile-rather-than-being-blocked-by-v2-writing-a
  [3]: http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/aspnet/default.aspx
  [4]: http://stackapps.com/users/4/jeff-atwood