Agents need control flow, not more prompts | Hacker News
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Hacker News commenters argued that prompts alone are not enough for reliable AI agents.
They said better results come from explicit objects, business rules, and programmatic validation.
In this view, LLMs should act as a natural-language interface or code-writing helper, not the runtime decision engine.
The discussion reflects a broader product shift toward constrained systems with deterministic control flow.
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