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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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