Babysitter, Auditor, Prayer. Or Tests.

A short post argued this week that reliable agents need deterministic control flow, not more prompts. The argument is correct. The line that lands hardest in the piece is the one about a programming language where statements are suggestions and functions return "Success" while hallucinating. That is the model when prompt chains carry the control flow; it is also a perfect description of why those systems collapse as complexity grows. The piece closes with three options for what to do about it: a