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Lance Martin: Black-box agent abstractions break when underlying models evolve
“Agent abstractions are problematic because you don't know what's necessarily under the hood of the abstraction. You don't understand it. And if I was building, for example, you know, OpenDeep research with an abstraction, I wouldn't necessarily know how to rip…”
Lance Martin Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 58:22 Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
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Martin: OpenDeep Research is the top-ranked open-source Deep Research agent
“OpenDeep Research is a deep research agent that I've been working on for about a year, and it's now, according to Deep Research Spence, the best performing Deep Research agent at least on that particular benchmark. So it's pretty good. Listen, it's not as good…”
Lance Martin Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 8:32 Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
Insight
Martin: The best open-source strategy pairs building tools with educational on-ramps
“I like this one, two punch of building a thing like open deep research, then creating a class so people can actually understand how to build it themselves. And I kind of like that build a thing, create an on-ramp for it.”
Lance Martin Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 1:02:30 Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
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