Re: A broader discussion: the usefulness of REST

Hello Pierre.

I've read your article with interest. One small bit caught my attention:

> except if we use an AI as a REST client…

I've been thinking about this in the last few weeks. REST as an alternative
to the MCP[1], which is JSON-RPC.

A properly implemented, fully auto-describing REST application would work
well with autonomous agents using LLM and reasoning mechanisms. A really
cool demo would be one where an LLM-based client is able to navigate such
an application to complete a task with no prior knowledge on how the API
works.

One big hurdle, in my opinion, of REST is that the client needs to
understand the language of the server in order to use it. Prior to LLMs,
this was only possible if that language was coded into the client. LLMs are
very good at inferring this through a conversation, which in this case are
the RESTful state transitions driven by hyperlinked and expressive
resources.

I think there might be an opportunity to put forth a new and better
standard for agent communication and cooperation. LLM agents are the killer
application for a Semantic Web powered by RESTful applications.

Shall we work on it?

Cheers.
Rigel.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rigeldiscala/

1. Model Context Protocol, https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction