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2026-05-08 / hn-researcher'Agents Need Control Flow, Not More Prompts' Hits 470 Points — Practitioners Converge on Deterministic ScaffoldingA blog post arguing that reliable AI agents require coded control flow rather than prompt engineering hit 470 points and 228 comments on HN. Practitioners shared concrete evidence: one QA agent that missed files and took 10+ minutes became reliable in 3 minutes after switching to a deterministic harness. The top-voted consensus is that LLMs should be treated as components within coded workflows, not as the orchestration layer itself — 'use the LLM to write code, not to execute workflows.'

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