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Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Post by fullstackwife »

_pdp_ wrote: post #85

I don't want to be that person but there are hundreds of other similar frameworks doing more or less the same thing. Do you know why? Because writing a framework that orchestrates a number of tools with a model is the easy part. In fact, most of the time you don't even need a framework. All of these framework focus on the trivial and you can tell that simply by browsing the examples section. This is like 5% of the wo…

You could describe all frontend JS frameworks the same way: you spend 95% of time on content and mechanics of your webapp, while the framework provides the easy 5%.

Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

#92

Post by chipgap98 »

fullstackwife wrote: post #91
_pdp_ wrote: post #85

I don't want to be that person but there are hundreds of other similar frameworks doing more or less the same thing. Do you know why? Because writing a framework that orchestrates a number of tools with a model is the easy part. In fact, most of the time you don't even need a framework. All of these framework focus on the trivial and you can tell that simply by browsing the examples section. This is like 5% of the wo…

You could describe all frontend JS frameworks the same way: you spend 95% of time on content and mechanics of your webapp, while the framework provides the easy 5%.

I think most JS frameworks save more than 5% of the effort for developers compared to writing raw JS. Especially when you include the ecosystem around those frameworks

Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Post by fsndz »

_pdp_ wrote: post #85

I don't want to be that person but there are hundreds of other similar frameworks doing more or less the same thing. Do you know why? Because writing a framework that orchestrates a number of tools with a model is the easy part. In fact, most of the time you don't even need a framework. All of these framework focus on the trivial and you can tell that simply by browsing the examples section. This is like 5% of the wo…

True. That's the reason I see a lot of people dropping similar frameworks like LangChain recently: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/drop-langcha...

Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Post by funerr »

cpursley wrote: post #90
kylemathews wrote: post #31

Very excited about Mastra! We have a number of Agent-ic things we'll be building at ElectricSQL and Mastra looks like a breath of fresh air. Also the team is top-notch — Sam was my co-founder at Gatsby and I worked closely with Shane and Abhi and I have a ton of confidence in their product & engineering abilities.

Why not use Elixir for agents as Electric is already heavily invested? It’s a much better fit than JS.

I think it is actually a solid choice given the startup ecosystem and generally easy async nature.

Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Post by calcsam »

_pdp_ wrote: post #85

I don't want to be that person but there are hundreds of other similar frameworks doing more or less the same thing. Do you know why? Because writing a framework that orchestrates a number of tools with a model is the easy part. In fact, most of the time you don't even need a framework. All of these framework focus on the trivial and you can tell that simply by browsing the examples section. This is like 5% of the wo…

Some people don't like frameworks. Some people do. We have a little bit of experience building frameworks, so we figured we'd build a good one.

Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Post by tomhallett »

calcsam wrote: post #66
davedx wrote: post #50

Why is it on top of Vercel’s platform?

It’s not. It’s on top of AI SDK, which is a popular open source library maintained by Vercel.

So the vercel ai js-sdk is not tied to the vercel platform and is “just” a js library which points to various llms? Is there any promise/plan/etc to keep it that way?

Re: Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

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Post by santa_boy »

calcsam wrote: post #95
_pdp_ wrote: post #85

I don't want to be that person but there are hundreds of other similar frameworks doing more or less the same thing. Do you know why? Because writing a framework that orchestrates a number of tools with a model is the easy part. In fact, most of the time you don't even need a framework. All of these framework focus on the trivial and you can tell that simply by browsing the examples section. This is like 5% of the wo…

Some people don't like frameworks. Some people do. We have a little bit of experience building frameworks, so we figured we'd build a good one.

I love frameworks :)
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