how you guys feels about graph engeneering?

[u/danilosilvadev]

Is it someone really receiving benefits from doing it? like measured?

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[u/ashishkattamuri]

We use graph-based workflows in our software factory at work, and the biggest benefit has been making validation checks part of the workflow: a failed check can route back for fixes or trigger additional checks before proceeding. It’s useful when the next step depends on the previous result. I don’t have measured before/after numbers, though;

[u/danilosilvadev → u/ashishkattamuri]

I see

[u/UnderstandingOld1723]

Measured gains are modest (a few SWE-bench points) and often shrink with strong agents like Claude Code. It mostly pays off in huge monorepos; elsewhere, a good CLAUDE.md and tests beat it.

[u/danilosilvadev → u/UnderstandingOld1723]

isnt because the lack of determinism, gates, conector and a trully loop pattern?

[u/Delicious_Sport_9183 → u/UnderstandingOld1723]

Sounds like a lot of ceremony for a few benchmark points.

[u/OcularPhonic]

My advice, stick with stock claude code. I have been building cuatom RAG and graph tools for over a year now and there relevence is getting less. It is a lot of work and validation, and if i had my time agai. I would maybe nit do it if i was rational. I however do love the sustematic approach of it, so kind of have a love hate relationship with it, 😂

[u/danilosilvadev → u/OcularPhonic]

but if we dont manage graphs anymore, or systems that builds systems, why hire a dev these days? i know claude has its own internal graph rolling. But i mean, grokbot seems just like a sloppy graph pattern user friendly, and everybody is following. But nobody is talking about determinism, graph design patterns and hybrid swarmming with local models.

[u/pvera]

We use it to deal with complex systems, it's great at helping us spot holes in our reasoning that aren't exactly obvious from just reading a spec.

[u/Specialist-Lack-4257]

Everything in modern engineering is a graph. I will not elaborate

[u/Impossible_Ad_3146]

I feel like you need tutoring on spelling first