### [Benchmark: GraphQL is more token-efficient than REST](#benchmark-graphql-is-more-token-efficient-than-rest)
New numbers from my open source benchmark suite show a significant and durable advantage for using GraphQL rather than other JSON API technologies under the hood to connect agents to deployed services.
### [Categorizing and evaluating inference spend](#categorizing-and-evaluating-inference-spend)
Not all tokens give equal value. Here's a framework for categorizing your inference calls and finding "code smells" that might be costing you a ton of money for relatively little value.
Alec Aivazis, creator of Houdini GraphQL
Alec is a consummate GraphQL practitioner and tooling visionary. The Houdini framework is a unique take on the GraphQL developer experience and it was an absolute pleasure hearing Alec's take on this and much more in these conversations:
source & further reading
jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub — original article
A functional taxonomy for LLM inference in agentic tasks
MCPJam's Prathmesh Patel, another bad GraphQL take, AI WG, and conference preview
MCP + GraphQL, Robert Balicki on Isograph, HTTP QUERY, GraphQL clients