alt Hacker NewsWe gave up on structured APIs 20+ years ago when JSON RPC largely replaced XML REST. You can do REST in many different formats, it mainly just needs to be structured data and self-discoverable.
Had we not made that wrong turn, LLMs and humans would have a much easier time reasoning about APIs they don't directly control.
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zepolen • today at 9:04 AM
> You can do REST in many different formats, it mainly just needs to be structured data and self-discoverable.
REST has nothing to do with structured data or discoverability.
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Yeah but why would we keep that around for 20 years with no good use case