DavidKPiano: the trend of putting agent control flow in Markdown will look silly soon
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-09-21
Well-known engineer David Khourshid (DavidKPiano) predicts that the current trend of encoding agent control flow in Markdown — skills, prompts, and the like — will look really silly within a couple of months.
The take targets the increasingly popular "skills/prompt files as control flow" pattern in agent engineering, and is likely to spark debate about how agents should be orchestrated.
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