Was watching a video from GitLab, posted 7 months ago about something similar.
You might find it interesting. https://youtu.be/TRpQW-TFTfw
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#32cool idea, how helpful is this in practice?
Thanks! I think it depends on how well Pizza Bot aligns with your mental model. Despite living in Claude Code for many things, I find the email-like UX we built for Pizza Bot matches my intuition for how I want to interact with agents beyond a simple chat interaction, including concepts like pinning, folders, filters, actionable threads, etc.
The bigger proof point for me was the adoption we saw from less technical folks at Amazon. Most of them immediately “got it.”
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#33Was watching a video from GitLab, posted 7 months ago about something similar. You might find it interesting. https://youtu.be/TRpQW-TFTfw
Oh neat - thank you for sharing! I hadn’t seen this before, but we were definitely inspired by a post LangChain made about “ambient agents”: https://www.langchain.com/blog/introducing-ambient-agents
It seemed fitting to build Pizza Bot on top of LangChain’s tech, given the inspiration. :)
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#34Why bother depending on DeepAgents and LangChain etc. My professional impression is such Middleware no longer brings anything if you primarily maintain the codebase with coding tools.
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#35Ideal for https://github.com/giannisanni/pulsar/
or kimi 3 on CPU
probably 30s for one token is too long for normal people but for agents it is ok
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#36Do you have a list of a few mcp servers or other tools you would add to help with the pizza-bot specific workflow? For example, how would you enforce structured output, should that be an mcp server, a plugin, already in the box?
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#39Why bother depending on DeepAgents and LangChain etc. My professional impression is such Middleware no longer brings anything if you primarily maintain the codebase with coding tools.
Thanks for the question!
I could maybe see that being the case for LangChain, specifically, if you’re just thinking about abstracting the LLM provider’s APIs. But here, we’re specifically using LangGraph to handle checkpointing and state management. This is a much more difficult challenge to get right in a sufficiently complex application like Pizza Bot.
Case in point: for the internal-only version, we wrote this ourselves. It works for the most part, but there are subtle edge cases and bugs that we’ve had to tackle like a game of whack-a-mole.
For the open source release, we looked at a few frameworks and deliberately settled on LangGraph (and DeepAgents). I’ve never been so happy to throw away code. :)
In our experience so far, it’s been rock solid. Most of the issues/bugs we’ve had have come from streaming to the frontend, so a simple Cmd-R / Ctrl-R will get you back up and running without having to worry about your data being lost.
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#40Ideal for https://github.com/giannisanni/pulsar/ or kimi 3 on CPU probably 30s for one token is too long for normal people but for agents it is ok
Totally agree! I’ve got scheduled agents that run (a little slowly) overnight using Qwen 3.8 27B that are ready for me by the morning. :)