# Durable Execution enables resilient agentic workflows in procedural code

DevFeed: [Durable Execution enables resilient agentic workflows in procedural code](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-fallacy-of-the-graph-why-your-next-agentic-workflow-should-be-code-not-a-diagram-36062.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/the-fallacy-of-the-graph-why-your-next-workflow-should-be-code-not-a-diagram>)

Author: Maxim Fateev

Published: 2025-08-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [agentic workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agentic-workflow.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Persistence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/persistence.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [Error Handling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/error-handling.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agentic-workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-workflow.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [error-handling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/error-handling.md>), [retries](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retries.md>), [stateful](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stateful.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that graph-based frameworks are a poor fit for dynamic AI-agent workflows. It presents Durable Execution as an alternative that lets developers use procedural code while retaining persistence, fault tolerance, incremental execution, error handling, retries, and tracing.

## Source excerpt

Graphs break for dynamic AI agents. Durable Execution lets you build resilient, stateful workflows in plain code -- with real error handling, retries, and tracing.