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baalimagotoday at 5:45 PM0 repliesview on HN

I never quite understood why agents should be treated as anything but normal software engineering. "Just" build a normal service and add an async call to some agentic framework, then parse the results. There is no need to "flip" this system and have the agent BE the process and invent a whole new ecosystem to manage the complexity that this flip creates.

If an agent is treated like nothing but a call to an external service (...which it is), everything fits in the existing programming paradigms. But I guess that's not very exciting. Only pragmatic.