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GraphQL Isn’t Dead Yet, AI Agents Revived It

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AI agents consume APIs very differently than humans or traditional services — they must process every returned field, making REST's over-fetching genuinely costly in tokens and latency. GraphQL's precise queries, self-documenting schema, field-level permissions, and structured errors align surprisingly well with how agents actually work, suggesting the layer between AI agents and backend systems may quietly start looking a lot like GraphQL.

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