Ex-ByteDance engineer on Coze shutdown: workflows killed by models that plan
dotey · x · 2026-11-03
An engineer who built Coze's Workflow engine at ByteDance confirms the once-hyped agent platform is being sunset, with an insider postmortem: drag-and-drop workflow nodes were a transitional crutch for weaker models, and agent planning has internalized workflow-building skills. A top-10 Coze creator quoted in the thread laments how fast the workflow era ended.
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