Reddit thread: composing modular agents beats hard-prompting a single general assistant
PaniPuriPanic · reddit · 2026-09-28
A Reddit poster argues that for specific use cases, it's better to compose the right modules, tools and routines than to keep hard-prompting a single general assistant. They ask the community which composition patterns have held up in practice and which turned into spaghetti — surfacing a real debate in agent engineering about deterministic orchestration vs conversational agents.
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