A lot of folks use it to get started quickly and then realize the unnecessary abstractions are obfuscating the actual hard parts.

A big soup of untyped json blobs and python, all working highly asynchronously in complicated ways.

Is this variable available in my agent’s state?

Depends! Is it an agent that started an hour ago before you made that other change? Is it in the manager state or not? Did the previous agent run correctly or not? Did something else go wrong?

You spend more time fighting the tool/framework than working on the product you’re trying to build.

Cryptic errors that will make you tear your hair out and docs that are constantly changing

Eh, more the wider cultural effects of them. Vibe coding, everyone now creating kitchen sink apps that do everything under the sun, k8s everywhere, agents everywhere. It feels like a big part of the industry has lost all focus and is sprinting towards some endless vague panacea instead of focusing on solving specific well defined business problems.

It’s always been a bit like this but it feels particularly bad since AI hit mainstream coding tooling. Just my 2c :)