Agent Graph Engineering is Essentially Just State Machines
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-07-19
The author cautions readers to be skeptical when reading articles about "agent graph engineering."
They argue that many agent tools over the past three years are essentially just developers slowly rediscovering two classic concepts: state machines and the actor model.
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