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Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by emvideo »

SpaceManNabs wrote: post #7
bnchrch wrote: post #5

Happy to see this launched, particularly today. I own a stake in a small brewery in Canada, and this feature just saved me setting up some infrastructure to "productionize" an agent we created to assist with ordering, invoicing, and government document creation. I get paid in beer and vibes for projects like these, so the more I can ship these projects in the same place I prototype them the better. (Also don't worry…

i get paid in vibes and chilling as well for some similar agent stuff i do for content creators. quick question, how do you manage these side projects that kinda need to be production ready but aren't you are actual SF job lol? some of these people think they are my actual customer/client but like i do it for fun and to help them out.

As a video content creator, I'm curious if you would mind sharing the agentic stuff you're doing for others?

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by codinhood »

ergocoder wrote: post #19
codinhood wrote: post #12

I wonder how long until Claude/OpenAI eat a lot of the current AI/Agent SaaS's lunch. Originally I thought they would stick towards being a model provider mainly, but with all the recent releases it seems they do want to provide more "services." Wonder what part of the market 3rd party apps will build a moat around?

Probably never. There are a couple reasons: 1. We pay for saas, so we don't have to manage it. If you vibe-code or use these AI things, then you are managing it yourself. 2. Most Saas is like $20-$100/month/person for most Saas. For a software engineer, that maybe 3. Most Saas require some sort of human in the loop to check for quality (at least sampling). No users would want to do that. Number 2 is the biggest reaso…

Interesting, so you're saying Anthropic/Openai/etc will get a general solution that won't be hands off. The moat for other companies will be creating the specific, managed solution.

I can see that, assuming models don't make some giant leap forward.

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Post by TIPSIO »

0o_MrPatrick_o0 wrote: post #20

I’ve been building my own version of this. It’s a bit shocking to see parallel ideation. FWIW- IMO, being locked into a single model provider is a deal breaker. This solution will distract a lot of folks and doom-lock them into Anthropic. That’ll probably be fine for small offices, but it is suicidal to get hooked into Anthropic’s way of doing things for anything complex. IME, you want to be able to compare different…

FWIW everyone is also building a version of this themselves. Only so many directions to go

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by siva7 »

> With Managed Agents, you define outcomes and success criteria, and Claude self-evaluates and iterates until it gets there (available in research preview, request access here). It also supports traditional prompt-and-response workflows when you want tighter control.

Call me stupid, but this sounds not like they want software developers to be around in a year or two.

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by lurker919 »

llmslave wrote: post #8

This is going to grow into a sophisticated platform, and is what will eventually compete head on with saas. I dont think companies will build their own agents, aside from looping in tools. As the models improve, there will be less hand holding. This could end up competing with AWS/GCP

Exactly my thoughts, AWS is due for a large rewrite/ground up rewrite from first principles to be able to fully utilize LLMs/agentic capabilities.

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by Sol- »

In addition to the managed interface for agent configuration and so on, is the novelty that all the agents run on Anthropic's infra? Sort of like Claude Code on the Web? If so, interesting that they move up the stack, from just a provider of an intelligence API to more complex deployed products.

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by jameslk »

We're in the early days of agentic frameworks, like the pre-PHP web. CGI scripts and webmasters. Eventually the state-of-the-art will slow down and we'll eventually have something elegant like Rails come out.

Until then, every agent framework is completely reinvented every week due to new patterns and new models. evals, ReACT, DSPy, RLM, memory patterns, claws, dynamic context, sandbox strategies. It seems like locking in to a framework is a losing proposition for anyone trying to stay competitive. See also: LangChain trying to be the Next.js/Vercel of agents but everyone recommending building your own.

That said, Anthropic pulls a lot of weight owning the models themselves and probably an easier-to-use solution will get some adoption from those who are better served by going from nothing to something agentic, despite lock-in and the constant churn of model tech

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by rtuin »

TIPSIO wrote: post #23
0o_MrPatrick_o0 wrote: post #20

I’ve been building my own version of this. It’s a bit shocking to see parallel ideation. FWIW- IMO, being locked into a single model provider is a deal breaker. This solution will distract a lot of folks and doom-lock them into Anthropic. That’ll probably be fine for small offices, but it is suicidal to get hooked into Anthropic’s way of doing things for anything complex. IME, you want to be able to compare different…

FWIW everyone is also building a version of this themselves. Only so many directions to go

Most definitely. Although I haven’t found an (F)OSS project that lets one easily ship [favorite harness SDK] to self-hosted platform yet.

Which projects are standing out in this space right now?

Re: Claude Managed Agents

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Post by patrickkidger »

I'm not sure if I'm about to be the old man yelling at clouds, but Anthropic seem to be 'AWS-ifying'. An increasing suite of products which (at least to me) seem to undifferentiated amongst themselves, and all drawn from the same roulette wheel of words.

We've got Claude Managed Agents, Claude Agent SDK, Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Platform, Claude Cowork, Claude Enterprise, and plain old 'Claude'. And honourable mention to Claude Haiku/Sonnet/Opus 4.{whatever} as yet another thing with the same prefix. I feel like it's about once a week I see a new announcement here on HN about some new agentic Claude whatever-it-is.

I have pretty much retreated in the face of this to 'just the API + `pi` + Claude Opus 4.{most recent minor release}', as a surface area I can understand.

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