https://blog.herlein.com/tags/software-for-one/ Recent content in Software-for-One on Greg Herlein Hugo en &copy; 2018-2026. All rights reserved. Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/better-but-at-what-complexity/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/better-but-at-what-complexity/ <p>I spent last week reading the source of two serious pieces of agent infrastructure — Google&rsquo;s <a href="https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate">Agent Substrate</a> and <a href="https://github.com/google/ax"><code>ax</code></a>, its &ldquo;Agent Executor&rdquo; — and holding them up next to my own little launcher, <code>agentdev</code>. I went in half-expecting to feel foolish about my homegrown thing. And I did. Substrate and ax are <em>better</em>. Genuinely, no-contest, better-engineered better. AND&hellip; they&rsquo;re better at a problem I don&rsquo;t have. Both of those are true.</p>