🔗 Why Elixir/OTP doesn't need an Agent framework: Part 2

In part one of this series we've been working through the patterns the excellent article "Building effective AI agents" by Anthropic.

In this post, we'll continue implementing those patterns, and as before, the main thing I'd like to showcase is how easy and elegant implementing these patterns can be in Elixir, and more importantly, how we don't need advanced frameworks to work with LLMs.

By keeping the level abstraction low and working with the chain of messages directly I hope to show how we can make some pretty complex and creative solutions. Many of these Lang-type frameworks make simple things sound complex, and maybe if we dig a bit beneath the surface you'll feel encouraged to come up with creative solutions that fit your exact needs.

If you haven't yet, I'd recommend having a look at the first part of the series as we introduce the technologies we'll be using there.