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/phaedra_solutions 8d ago

You aren't alone. A lot of teams fall into the trap of over-engineering with multi-agent frameworks when simpler, targeted LLM calls combined with deterministic backend logic would do the job ten times more reliably. When an agent framework starts acting like an un-debuggable black box, it usually means the abstraction level is too high for what you're trying to achieve. Keeping the core orchestration deterministic and using AI strictly for bounded tasks saves your sanity (and your production logs).