HTML has now become my go-to medium for my planning when I develop. Before implementing a plan, I have Claude create an “artifact” of the architectures before and after (pictured below). Many times you can quickly see an issue before you waste any more tokens!

Right now I’m going through my self-rolled implementations on my open-source project, Petri, and choosing established frameworks to replace them with now that I have a better idea of my requirements.

Something I’m most excited to try out is DBOS for managing my queue of tasks for my agents. A huge reason why I rolled my own here was because the industry standard from Uber, Temporal, seemed like overkill for this project .

Another huge lesson was seeing how brittle managing the state machine without a framework was. I was hesitant to adopt a framework because the space changes so quickly— Langchain being very fragmented is a great example of this. I ultimately chose PydanticAI since I’m already using Pydantic for type enforcement and because it already integrates with DBOS!

Anything cool that you are building and would like to share?