Most coding agents today are hand-rolled loops, not framework abstractions
arpit_bhayani · x · 2026-10-05
Arpit Bhayani looks back at the 2023-24 rush to learn LangChain and similar agent frameworks, noting that today's major coding harnesses and agents are essentially hand-rolled loops. His takeaway: the abstraction itself was the overhead — practice has validated simple loops over heavy frameworks.
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