Day 01: Why your first agent should be 40 lines, not a framework
The first agent I ever got working, I did not understand. I had installed a framework, pasted eleven lines out of its quickstart, and watched a correct answer appear. Then I changed the prompt slightl
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Kartik N V J K
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The 11-line framework quickstart breaking on a tiny prompt change is exactly why I tell people to start at 40 lines they understand. When you cannot see the control flow, you cannot tell whether the model failed or the framework did, so you end up debugging a black box. I went through a stretch of uninstalling coding CLIs one after another, and the model was almost never the actual problem. What made you draw the line at 40 lines specifically?