[verdverm]

yup, I have recently started saying "building blocks over batteries included"

particularly as it comes to people trying to sell me on their Agent "framework", which amounts to little more than some well built tools and prompts, but pigeon holes me into how they think about solving certain issues in the agentic space, based on how things work today. If I go out 2 years, do I have to wait for the "framework" to realize their ideas are now out-of-touch and wait for them to course correct, or have I selected a framework that allows me to easily experiment, evaluate, and adjust any technique, with an ecosystem of building blocks for both the provider and user side of what I am building