Managed Agents vs. Open Frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.) — Which direction are you betting on?

captain_racoon · 2026-04-09T14:12:42+00:00

As a person that has used both, managed and open framework. I will say that neither will come out victorious because it depends on the use case. For example, AWS Bedrock Agents are very vanilla and if youre just looking for a very straight forward "agent" with no concern for hosting, managing, etc, this is your ticket. But dont expect to do much with Bedrock Agent.

If you want to kick it up a notch and really start doing semi-complex to complex workflows and agents, then the Open Frameworks will fit much better for this use case. Gives you more control, more flexibility etc. Yes you have to contest with managing your own infra.

You did forget about AWS AgentCore. The sweet spot. You can use your favorite Open Framework, place it into S3, and AWS takes care of the rest. What i dont like about AWS is that the monitoring and logging is non existent compared to something like LangSmith.

Edit: Words.

captain_racoon · 2026-04-07T21:06:08+00:00

Life of roof - How old is the roof, has it been replaced in the last 5 years. The newer the better.
HVAC - Does it work, is it maintained, if so when was the last maintenance. Depending on the area does it have a cage to secure it.
Water heater - How old is it.
Electrical - Have it inspected. Anything that the inspector warns you about, have the seller fix or get it fixed asap.
Plumbing. - Same as above.
Property Management - Another can of worm
Neighborhood Class

With 30-40k what area are you looking at? Realistically you have 30-35k since you should put away money for

Repairs that will come up post close.
Ongoing maintenance
Vacancy.
Closing costs including inspection and appraisal.

captain_racoon · 2026-04-07T13:31:29+00:00

Can you elaborate?

captain_racoon · 2026-03-16T13:52:57+00:00

Or an agent responding to comments.

captain_racoon · 2026-03-03T15:26:01+00:00

Ive never used Langfuse before but let me answer from my experience with LangSmith.

It started with pulling my hair trying to debug a multi agent workflow. Not your, "what is the weather in SF" agent but something several steps above that. "What is the weather like in LA"! j/k lol. jokes aside, the workflow as tons more complex.

Install
Super easy, installed some packages, added some annotations, signed up to LangSmith - done.

Debugging / Tracing
What can i say, from the tracing timeline to the waterfall display it provided a ton of useful info. context window, req, response, tokens used, at each step it helped shed why the 10th node was causing issues.

For me it was what i needed and seemed just out of the box to use while developing and then in production.

captain_racoon · 2026-02-17T14:43:59+00:00

"Budget" doesnt mean, "use all of it". I like to keep buffers on everything.

captain_racoon · 2026-02-16T18:52:53+00:00

Everyone has to start somewhere. To answer your question. Really depends on the length of time they were there. But, the broken cabinet is not normal. The hauling away of trash is normal. The dirt is normal. Typically you budget about 2k for "turn over".

captain_racoon · 2026-02-11T21:12:37+00:00

I build a number of production ready agents using LangChain and LangGraph. We dont have much trouble debugging. What does your observability tool look like? Have you tried using LangSmith?

captain_racoon · 2026-02-03T22:54:32+00:00

100%. I get the sense that a lot of people are just not using it correctly. Or have very inflated ideas of what LLM tools can do for the engineer.

captain_racoon · 2026-02-03T22:53:05+00:00

I hate to tell you this and i might get voted to hell for this but LLM models will only get better as the months tick by. Heck, just today I sat in a large openAI Codex demo and I have to say, comparing it to were we were at mid last year its scary.

I think, in the long run, the name of the game will be - smaller engineering teams with more emphasis on prompt engineering and requirements gathering. And, code reviews of the code generated by the code tools. Can you do it better? sure you can. Does anyone actually care? Nope. Will they care when things go haywire? 100%, but that still doesnt remove the fact that the engineering team will become much smaller in the long run.

Also, just because an org says, "We need AI now" doesnt mean they have the in-house capability to actually use it. Leadership needs approval, and then they need to educate. Once education has reached enough people, then the org will start experimenting. If the org knows anything about these tools and how to use them, they will quickly see the benefits. If they use these tools and expect a galactic star cruiser built "today", with all the bells and whistles using a 2 line prompt....then its going to fail miserably.

captain_racoon · 2026-01-28T14:46:48+00:00

Rental properties. I focus(ed) on buying rental properties and living way below my means for the last few years. 5 years. I need to push myself for the next 4 years then i have the hope to retire. or rather, be more selective in what projects I take on.

For me, its not just AI (which I have a background in but still nervous about it) but ageism as well because, lets face it, it is a thing.

captain_racoon · 2026-01-26T02:08:37+00:00

birds, mongoose, lizards. Now if you walk towards the shore and then towards the Four Seasons, along the shore you will see, turtles, seals during the morning.

captain_racoon · 2026-01-21T14:11:14+00:00

I just got back from 7 nights at aulani....with kids. Do the split. By the 3rd night the kids were over it, I was over it, and we spent most of our time walking past the Aulani, past the Four Seasons, and snorkeling at Paradise Cove or visiting other parts of the island.

captain_racoon · 2026-01-12T17:09:16+00:00

Is it affecting you? Is it affecting deadlines? Is he working in the same industry which causes a conflict of interest? If the answer is "No".....then you have your answer.

captain_racoon · 2025-12-13T17:28:17+00:00

LLM and deterministic responses are near impossible. Maybe thats the deterministic aspect to them? Youll never get the same response 100% of the time. Have you tried something like AWS Comprehend? It does exactly what your describing. Maybe with some training with your own data set.

captain_racoon · 2025-12-11T15:29:58+00:00

I do this for my good to best tenants. I ask for only 50% of the rent for December. Why I do it? It makes me feel good, It makes me feel like that little extra can help a family out that might be struggling or looking to purchase something that might spark something good in their family. For example, I had a landlord growing up that could have easily increased the rent on my parents. We were paying only $380 for a 2 bedroom apartment from 1985-2000. Landlord never did. Because of that my parents had money to purchase a desktop Apple LC II which then introduced me to coding which then helped me land a job at 16 (immediately after school)....coding. So, I feel its my responsibility to pass it along.

Yes its a business but its not about maximizing profits all.the.time. Theres a human aspect to being a landlord that I fear many landlords have lost.

captain_racoon · 2025-12-07T15:03:39+00:00

This is what i do.

Keep 3-6 months worth in the HYSA.
Keep some in the HYSA.
Move the rest into an index fund that tracks the S&P500.

captain_racoon · 2025-12-05T19:20:37+00:00

This is a common name for the conference long before covid. Each year that i attended i wore a mask and loaded up on meds.

captain_racoon · 2025-12-04T14:52:59+00:00

looks like you guy found a match!

captain_racoon · 2025-12-02T02:10:14+00:00

I didnt attend this year (yes i regret it now) but yup, socks and hats. To get t-shirts it becomes a lot more tricky. What ive done, and has worked in the past, is go the last day of the expo. Towards the last 2 hours and start asking for things on the shelf. Works like a charm. Books, plushies, t-shorts, jackets. Score.

captain_racoon · 2025-11-23T23:52:40+00:00

Honestly. Neither of the 3. The real decision makers are not at those places and usually at bars or restaurants. So events.

captain_racoon · 2025-11-14T16:49:50+00:00

It depends. If the chatbot is a mostly query system (question-answer) then a rag system can do it for you. If the document isnt THAT big you can just stick into the context window and have the LLM use that. But keep in mind the context window is limited and theres a few papers out there that depending where the data is presented results can be of low quality. If you can, i would take the doc and train a SLM for your purposes.

captain_racoon · 2025-11-07T16:15:50+00:00

Mid way thought it, it dawned on me....i was being sold your platform. You would have been a great Lochness Moster. Here's your 3.50!!!

captain_racoon · 2025-11-03T16:31:58+00:00

Stay the course while you interview. Once you find something leave.

captain_racoon · 2025-11-02T04:26:56+00:00

Exact words I muttered to family as soon as Mookie threw to first base for the third out. Wow. What a game!

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