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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