All Agent Loops Are Fundamentally State Machines
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-07-03
XState creator David Khourshid points out that all "loops" written by developers are essentially state machines. This offers a valuable perspective for AI agent architecture: an agent's loop control flow can be more rigorously modeled and managed using state machines.
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