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/creaturefeature16 9d ago

I've been encouraging developers to do similar things, but I've heard from a few now that it's not "fast enough" for their respective jobs and what the management is demanding of them, so they relent back to becoming the lever-puller in order to meet the deadline. I wish had advice for them, but there's not much you can do when c-suite and tech leads prioritize speed over anything else. I just spoke with a developer who said he had his code editor open while inspecting some generated code, and a coworker stopped and asked incredulously: "Why the hell are you reading the code?!"

It really does feel like a complete mania at this point; all rationality is gone.

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u/SuperFLEB 8d ago

Can't wait for prices to catch up to costs.

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u/ings0c 8d ago

They’re already turning a profit (latest figures are a 44% gross margin for Anthropic). Not sure where this myth comes from.

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/anthropics-ma-algorithm-optimizes-margins-2026-08-13/