Are we paying a platform tax every time we build an AI agent?

rio_ARC · reddit · 2026-08-28

The author argues that building AI agents involves repeatedly implementing non-agent-specific infrastructure like auth, memory, and tracing. The post questions whether these components should evolve into shared platform layers rather than being rebuilt for each agent, comparing approaches like LangGraph, TrueFoundry, and Lyzr's Agentic OS.

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