alt Hacker NewsI have thought about this for all of thirty seconds, but it wouldn't shock me if this was the case. The intuition here is about types, and the ability to introspect them. Agents really love automated guardrails. It makes sense to me that this would work better than RESTish stuff, even with OpenAPI.
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ibash • yesterday at 11:36 PM
Better than rest is a low bar though. Ultimately agents should rarely be calling raw rest and graphql apis, which are meant for programmatic use.
Agents should be calling one level of abstraction higher.
Eg calling a function to “find me relevant events in this city according to this users preferences” instead of “list all events in this city”.
Same in terms of time spent. The hypothesis graphql is superior passes the basic sniff test. Assuming graphql does what it says on the tin, which my understanding is it does based on my work with Ent, then the claim it’s better for tool and api use by agents follows from common sense.