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2026-04-20 19:22
Beyond Hello World: The Brutal Truth About Real AI Agent Development
Beyond Hello World: The Brutal Truth About Real AI Agent Development
Honestly, I thought building AI agents would be easy. I mean, how hard could it be, right? Just chain a few prompts together, add some memory, and boom - you've got yourself an intelligent agent. Spoiler alert: it's not that simple. After building 17 completely broken versions of my AI agent system BRAG, I've learned s...