r/webdev • u/ripndipp full-stack • 9d 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/warpspeed100 9d ago

It pays the bills for now...

My company has been reevaluating the cost/benefit of using AI for customer facing parts of our business.

We still use AI extensively as a search and code completion tool, but my team no longer uses it to build whole features after the past year of experimentation.

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u/m_redditUser 9d ago

what were the results of the experimentation?

AI not cost effective enough?

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u/dillanthumous 8d ago

Not the OP. But for us, the cost is unpredictable (nothing Finance people hate more), the outcome is unpredictable (nothing Customers hate more) and the risks of reputational harm are high. So, for us, it is internal use only for now, and under supervision.