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Here is how REST came to mean the opposite of REST: https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/ https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-res
by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
Here is how REST came to mean the opposite of REST:
https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/ https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
And here is why REST is probably largely pointless in machine-to-machine APIs:
https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...
- andros 3mo agoA few years ago I would have 100% agreed with you, but now with LLMs they may have made sense again.
- recursivedoubts 3mo agoyes, I caveat that at the end: > Once we have strong AI, maybe the situation changes. But that’s what we’ve got today. However, I am doing research on AI and hypermedia and I'm skeptical that the late-bound, discoverable dynamic of it compete well with things like MCP, at least if you are using something like a ReAcT loop. I am publishing a paper on this soon.