Here is how REST came to mean the opposite of REST:

And here is why REST is probably largely pointless in machine-to-machine APIs:

A few years ago I would have 100% agreed with you, but now with LLMs they may have made sense again.

	▲	recursivedoubts a day ago \| parent [-]
		yes, 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.