DavidKPiano: markdown-based agent control flow will look silly in months
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-09-21
David Khourshid (DavidKPiano) predicts the trend of putting agent control flow in markdown (skills, prompts, etc.) will look "really silly" in a couple of months.
His alternative: plain code for deterministic logic, plus decision models for the nondeterministic parts — a pointed critique of the "natural language as programming" approach.
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