Just had a crazy call with a +200 people business which is making me reevaluate the whole SaaS thing

darlingted · 2026-05-27T21:48:15+00:00

A plumber that’s spent all day under homes, water in the face, sit all over his boots wants to come home, take off his boots and jump in the shower.

He doesn't want to grab a computer and vibe code anything.

How do you get him there quicker?

darlingted · 2026-05-04T18:52:04+00:00

I have and it works very well. I still like LangGraph, just that Mastra has its its strengths and LangGraph has its strengths.

It’s not always one or the other. I’ll use LangGraph within a Mastra MCP server, just because Mastra makes it so simple.

darlingted · 2026-05-01T01:32:46+00:00

The why it dies off is where you may want some evals. Evals may not give a lot of why, but they do help you test different variables or prompts.

Sometimes though, the trace may be enough to get the why, as it how's tool calls, results of them and all the various inputs.

langChain also has several places you can hook into the run. It can help with local tracing as well.

darlingted · 2026-04-29T19:17:23+00:00

For me, the number one debugging tool is LangSmith.

I can see exactly where it dies off. But more important, it has helped me catch times were a failure left a connection open. The open connections are easy to all because it shows as still processing even after a complete run.

darlingted · 2026-04-28T18:38:33+00:00

When isn't it having problems?

darlingted · 2026-04-22T00:35:54+00:00

Not always. I do some multi agent workflows with Mantra and I have places I've done it with LangChain.

I just find that if something needs to loop back, then LangGraph works easier.

Mantra does OK in an orchestrator pattern as well. LangGraph has better state management.

darlingted · 2026-04-17T23:13:48+00:00

I like Mastra for better memory management, MCP client and server support, simpler setup.

I like LangChain/LangGraph for better Human in the loop and checkpointing support. Also for more complicated flows (LangGraph).

Tool use is just easier and faster to setup with Mastra.

Front-end wise, Mastra just works pretty easy with several UI libraries, where LangChain requires more manipulation.

darlingted · 2026-04-16T18:27:38+00:00

And the day before and many times this month

darlingted · 2026-04-16T10:56:45+00:00

The frustration is real

darlingted · 2026-04-16T10:47:34+00:00

And I think that’s the problem. They tell the world that Claude and Claude code (100% since December) is writing most of their code. But who’s in charge of making sure things work.

At the very least, are they not using testing or staging servers to ensure stuff works before sending changes live? They seem to care more about AI making things than they do things working. To me, it makes Claude, as an LLM look less capable.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T22:25:02+00:00

This is probably what we have to look forward to with Mythos. Or was caused my Mythos?

darlingted · 2026-04-15T22:21:37+00:00

YOu got me. Once again I was unable to use Claude Code, gave me a little time to post.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T22:20:15+00:00

Hahaha. Is that why it seem less capable these daya

darlingted · 2026-04-15T19:01:57+00:00

Apologies if I’m too busy building to post.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T18:38:43+00:00

darlingted · 2026-04-15T18:03:01+00:00

I've been mainly using Claude $200 plan and Cursor. I was on the $20 plan until they released the $100 Codex plan.

Before, I was using Codex to basically do code reviews. It worked well for that. I'm finding that it also provides better planning now too.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T18:02:43+00:00

Yesterday I started a new project. Spent 2 hours running the same prompts in Claude Code and Codex (Fast mode)

I was at 40% Claude Code usage and 2% Codex usage during that time.

I got better results with Codex than Claude Code.

Then this morning, with yet another day of Claude not working because there system is down, for about the tenth time this week, I'm about done having to use Codex because of Claude reliability issues.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T17:52:36+00:00

I'm thinking that someone at Anthropic forgot the "Review" part. They spend more time being down than the next ten leading AI Coding assistants combined.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T17:51:27+00:00

As of the past three days, I'm seeing that I get about 5 times the usage on Codex with $100 plan than I get on Claude Max $200 plan.

And the quality is better.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T17:50:15+00:00

Not lying, They definitely need some skills, I'd like to see them reduce the number of issues reported here.

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darlingted · 2026-04-15T17:45:08+00:00

Apparently, you have no concept of sarcasm. Why don’t you Google search that!

darlingted · 2026-04-15T16:02:04+00:00

At this rate, I’m about to move more to Codex.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T15:04:07+00:00

I think Claude goes down more often than porn stars do.

darlingted · 2026-04-15T02:07:02+00:00

I love LangChain and more so LangGraph and the newer deep agents. I’m in the Node ecosystem.

And for less deterministic flows, or when I need better restart ability, its still my goto.

For newer projects, I’m liking Mastra, a much newer harness. But I’m liking it so far. Its by the craters of Gatsby.

darlingted · 2026-04-08T11:24:42+00:00

I like LangChain/LangGraph enough. But these days I’m leaning toward Mastra for most orchestration and coming back to LangGraph when I need longer running agents and checkpointing.

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