Superfluous Abstractions: The Landscape of LLM Tooling
Judging by the activity of marketing hypemen and growth hackers, it seems “Agents” are a Big Important Thing. I can’t scroll 2 posts on social media without being offered a course or a low-code service. As usual, the grifters are trailing the edge by a few years. If you try to pin down a definition, it seems to boil down to “a distributed, fault-tolerant software system… with LLM calls”. So that means we just need to throw Claude on the BEAM. Easy enough! For those willing to read some Elixir code I direct you to a pair of excellent blog posts from 2023: ...