AI Agents as Programs, Not Just Prompts

Originally posted as a thread on X. I’ve been building AI agents for a while now and I’m a bit puzzled about where the industry is going. We’re writing the most autonomous software we’ve ever built, but the tools we use to build them are a mess. Python script calling APIs, state scattered everywhere, YAML configs, framework-of-the-week. It works until it doesn’t, and then you’re debugging at 2am because some MCP gateway is stuck as some tool or API changed shape and nothing caught it. ...

March 19, 2026 · 4 min · Franck Verrot