Why You Should Code More in Your Agent Workflows
id-ltd · reddit · 2026-07-17
The core viewpoint of this Reddit post is that many so-called agent workflows shouldn't remain purely "all AI" forever.
Based on the author's experience, a project might start with fully agentic processing, but as development progresses, many steps are refactored into deterministic code. AI is then retained only for the small segments where actual reasoning is required.
They also mention that the remaining AI components are often small and simple enough to run on local small models. Fundamentally, this perspective discusses how to "de-AI" agent architectures and strip away unnecessary agentic complexity.
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