David Khourshid: DAGs are silly — the thing you want is called 'code'
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-09-22
In a discussion on agent workflows, David Khourshid declared 'DAGs are silly' and said his longstanding position is: why are devs reinventing old things badly — the 'old thing' being code itself. Another round in the debate over graph-based orchestration versus just writing code for agents.
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