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Don't Build Slop (4 Levels of AI Agent Maturity) - Ara Khan, Cline
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Building AI Agents should follow four maturity levels: validate with frameworks, customize with state machines, optimize UX with Kanban, and deploy to the cloud. Avoid hype and evolve from simple to complex based on needs.
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- Level 1 uses frameworks like LangChain to quickly validate ideas.
- Level 2 abandons frameworks for custom state machines for control.
- Level 3 adopts Kanban boards as the primary interaction UX.
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Developers suffer from collective anxiety and misconceptions about AI Agent capabilities.
Use existing frameworks like LangChain to quickly verify if an idea works.
In serious development, abandon frameworks to build logic with state machines.
Kanban boards are recommended as the core UX form for interacting with agents.
Deploy mature agent applications to the cloud environment for production use.
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- AI Agent 成熟度模型
- Level 1: 框架验证
- LangChain / LangGraph
- Level 2: 状态机
- 自定义逻辑
- Level 3: 看板交互
- UX 优化
- Level 4: 云端部署
- 生产环境
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I want to break down this problem of building agents into like four different parts.
The first part is just like kind of somehow figured a way to like see if this even makes sense... That's like where you use a framework.
Second part is like when you actually are serious... you build things by yourself, like as a state machine.
The third part is like the UX workflow, where you use Kanban, which I suggest is like a great form factor.
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