Agent Orchestration is Fundamentally Just State Machines
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-07-19
The author argues against getting distracted by agent buzzwords, noting that what truly matters in development are reusable foundational primitives. They reduce common **loops** and **graphs** to state machines, and categorize many flashy agent orchestration patterns as simply the **actor model**. The emphasis isn't on learning new jargon, but on recognizing these underlying structures to avoid being misled by conceptual packaging during development.
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