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Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by krzyk on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:28AM (#48060735)
Could you elaborate what does "compiling orchestration prompt" mean?
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by Frost1x on Friday May 08, 2026 @06:59AM (#48061379)
When you get some abstraction working you concretize it in something deterministic, or sort of “cache” that knowledge bit (aka write me a function, class, library, whatever). In the future, the nondeterministic path now has a deterministic piece to lean on as it explores the problem space. Rinse, repeat, eventually you have a mostly deterministic system now. Leave flexibility in space where you need that nondeterminism.
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by LikesPwsh on Friday May 08, 2026 @07:20AM (#48061547)
Rather than telling the LLM "loop through these files", tell it "write a script to loop through these files", then hard-code that script somewhere rather than generating it each time.
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by whattheheckheck on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:46AM (#48064009)
The models will eventually be able to know that they need to do that to get the thing done from natural language
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by suttontom on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:54PM (#48088511)
"The models will eventually..." Yeah but they haven't, and it's been years now. Also who cares? We have problems right now that need to be solved.
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by renticulous on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:02PM (#48066633)
First we gave LLMs access to bash commands. Now we give them access to customized commands which they can reuse. It's English language extending its claws into deterministic programming language. Now can we please have backtracking and dynamic programming like thinking loop built into English language or such orchestration prompts.
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts by throawayonthe on Friday May 08, 2026 @06:34AM (#48061208)
a guess but i think they mean take the orchestration prompt and prompt yet another llm to turn that prompt into code..?