everyone treats the palantir and anthropic announcements as fresh agent breakthroughs but both described the same state machine where the branch condition is now an llm call instead of a hardcoded if else.
one prompt in → state evaluated → condition routed → memory updated → next node.
stateful workflows with conditional routing have existed in enterprise software for a long time so the new primitive is just the inference call sitting in the branch node.
most shops are still drawing circles with arrows on a slide and announcing they've gone fully agentic.
the grift is dumb. the primitive underneath is the actual story.
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