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by pantulis 449 days ago
I think it's fair to say that "roll-your-own" would probably make less sense, but in terms of adopting an "agentic" framework one would have to also research the state the competition is in. Which is to say, I'm not sure what are the alternatives to LangGraph and their maturity, only LlamaIndex comes to mind but I may be obsolete.
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    > I think it's fair to say that "roll-your-own" would probably make less sense
It is not particularly difficult to implement the use cases that the article outlines on top of existing lower level SDKs. Yes, I'm aware that some of these platforms offer a lot more capabilities than just DAG flow of prompts, but article's use case can be implemented in less than a day, TBH (from experience doing it twice now (not my choice; other decision makers are hesitant to adopt existing libs and prefer lower level libs...))

I just think the article would be better if it actually answered "Why LangGraph and not these?"

> I just think the article would be better if it actually answered "Why LangGraph and not these?"

Agreed! But what are the _these_?

Article is Python LangGraph, but JS LangGraph has at least one alternative in Mastra and certainly others as well.