Sam Altman in 78 Minutes: From Prompts to Agents, Loops and Graphs
anirbanbandyo · x · 2026-09-06
Quoting Sam Altman: "You don't need to write prompts anymore. You need loops and graphs that write them for you." The 78-minute talk frames LLM usage as four levels — Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs — where the same model and tokens change outcomes purely by the shape you run them in, paired with a full graph engineering guide. The quote-tweet author's own 2016 patent self-promotion adds little.
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