I agree that HATEOAS never made sense without a human in the loop, although I also have never seen it be described as such. IMO that’s an important reason why i

I agree that HATEOAS never made sense without a human in the loop, although I also have never seen it be described as such. IMO that’s an important reason why it never gained useful traction. There is a confused history where Roy Fielding described REST, then people applied some of that to JSON HTTP APIs, designating those as REST APIs, then Roy Fielding said “no you have to do HATEOAS to achieve what I meant by REST”, then some people tried to make their REST APIs conform to HATEOAS, all the while that change was of no use to REST clients. But now with AI it actually can make sense, because the AI is able to dynamically interpret the hypermedia content similar to a human.