Discussion
Claude Managed Agents: get to production 10x faster
ziml77: [delayed]
bnchrch: 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 all, still have SF income to buy food for my family with)
llmslave: 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
SpaceManNabs: 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.
cedws: I saw this coming. Anthropic wants to shift developers on to their platform where they’re in control. The fight for harness control has been terribly inconvenient for them.
codinhood: 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?
siva7: What exactly makes you think that AWS & co. don't have already two competing Agents-as-a-Service Platforms at any time?
JLO64: As someone who spins up docker containers where I use the Anthropic Agentic SDK to build Jekyll websites for customers, I don’t see much of an appeal. I didn’t find it that difficult to set up the infrastructure, the hard part was getting the agents to do exactly what I wanted. Besides, eventually I might want to transition away to another provider (or even self hosting) so I’d prefer having that freedom.
0o_MrPatrick_o0: 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 models and you end up managing them to your style. It’s a bit like cooking- where you may have greater affinity for certain flavors. You make selection tradeoffs on when to use a frontier model on design & planning vs something self hosted for simpler operations tasks.
ergocoder: 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 <1h of pay.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 reason. It's $20 a month.... I'm not gonna replace that with anything.Writing this message already costs more than $20 of my time.I predict that the market will get bigger because people are more prone to automate the long-tail/last-mile stuff since they are able to
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.
lurker919: 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.
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.
TIPSIO: FWIW everyone is also building a version of this themselves. Only so many directions to go
rtuin: 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?
spiderfarmer: I cloned a product today that does the 20% of a product my client needed. It took 8 hours and will save my client 2k a month in licensing fees. Plus, I can now add the features they were missing in the original product.There's a lot of money to be made in small business automation right now.
esaym: The website is solid black on Firefox mobile for android. Maybe they should get an agent on that.
jorl17: Anthropic's website is always completely broken for me on Zen (a firefox derivative). I used to think it was an extension, but even without extensions it often just shows blank pages.
