Holmes: Agentic Tool Calls Do Not Map Well to Go Structs
Ben Holmes · ⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes · Jun 25, 2025 · at 45:11
Ben Holmes from Warp discusses backend engineering choices and friction points when building agentic developer infrastructure.
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“Cause I know that more of the complaints about our backend are the fact that we leaned on Golang than the fact that we leaned on GraphQL. Which is surprising. Mostly because the way we model everything with agentic tool calls doesn't match to go structs very well.”
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