# Agent Design Is Still Hard | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

<https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Building agents is a whole different ballgame than using them and creating product value around them has a bunch of new things for developers to solve. This article hits on a number of the challenges when creating productized agent capabilities. Managing context and testing are the ones that I suspect will continue to be hard for a while.

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