Skill Orchestration > Agent Loop Chains: Why Dumb Pipelines + Smart Tools Beat Smart Pipelines + Dumb Tools

Current AI Agent frameworks obsess over building complex loop chains: Planner → Executor → Reflector → Re-planner. I chose the opposite: tools are stateless pure functions, and the LLM decides the call sequence itself. Not because loop chains aren’t cool — but because they put decision authority in the wrong place.

April 30, 2026 · 9 min

Why I Didn't Use LangChain — The Design Logic Behind a Custom FSM Orchestration Engine

LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, PydanticAI — no shortage of AI orchestration frameworks. I evaluated all of them and built my own. Not NIH syndrome. When you need failure-mode-driven mutation strategies, phase-aware multi-model routing with different temperatures, and adaptive evolution based on trajectory analysis, the abstraction layers of general-purpose frameworks become obstacles to route around.

April 3, 2026 · 11 min