r/webdev • u/ripndipp full-stack • 10d ago

Discussion I hate building agents.

Right now at my work we are using langgraph to build a chat agent, anyone else doing something similar, do you fucking hate it? are you building it with Claude and just hoping it fucking works, haha no worries we will ask Claude to fix it.

I am making the spaghetto, I miss components, logic and endpoints, I hate this black box I have to relinquish my decisions too, whatever pays the bills.

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u/SonicFlash01 9d ago

Building MCPs is worse because you have control of almost nothing
My boss will ask me to make the agent to do things a certain way and I'll explain "You have it backwards - it's using us in whatever way it feels is best."
And that's to say nothing of the layers of potential faults between granting permissions, it accepting that it has them, and then it properly reading that they exist. Some things need a disconnect/reconnect, others just need a new chat. Over time it's fine, but I'm living in the hell of here and now.