Comment by _pdp_
This is a huge undertaking though. Yes it is quite simple to build some basic abstraction on top of openai.complete or similar but this like 1% of an agent need to do.
My bet is that agent frameworks and platform will become more like game engines. You can spin your own engine for sure and it is fun and rewarding. But AAA studios will most likely decide to use a ready to go platform with all the batteries included.
In totality, yes. But you don't need every feature at once. You add to it once you hit boundaries. But I think the most important thing about this exercise is that you leave nothing to the imagination when building agents.
The non-deterministic nature of LLMs already makes the performance of agents so difficult to interpret. Building agents on top of code that you cannot mentally trace through leads to so much frustration when addressing model underperformance and failure.
It's hard to argue that after the dust settles, companies will default to batteries-included frameworks but, right now, a lot of people i've regretted adopting a large framework off the bat.