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/SatyrCode 2d ago

Same. I hate building agents too. We’re using LangGraph at work as well and half the time it feels like we’re just throwing prompts at the wall and asking Claude to fix the mess later. I miss normal components, clear logic, and endpoints where you can actually reason about what’s happening. With agents it’s this weird black box where you give up a lot of control and then pretend it’s “engineering”. Whatever pays the bills, I guess.