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21. Dynamic Workflows at Scale (Escaping the AI Chat Window Bottleneck)

Oct 19, 2026 · 44m

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In Episode 21 of Beyond Prompting , author Sho Shimoda explores how to break through the manual chat window bottleneck by programmatically orchestrating AI agents using Dynamic Workflows . When coordinating large-scale engineering tasks across a codebase, managing dozens of parallel tasks manually through a chat transcript becomes a major bottleneck. In this episode, we break down: When Scripts Beat Conversations: The three conditions that justify a workflow script—large volume (20+ items), complete task independence, and aggregated findings. JavaScript Workflow Mechanics: Writing deterministic orchestration scripts using agent(), pipeline(), parallel(), phase(), and log(), while enforcing…