Agent Platforms Are Commoditizing — Should You Build On One or Own Your Stack?

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:16:00 -0500

If you’re building an AI product right now, you’ve probably heard the pitch: “Use our agent platform. Build AI agents without code. Ship faster.”

Bitta, Relevance AI, n8n, Dust, LangChain, Zapier AI, OpenClaw — everyone’s selling agent orchestration platforms. And they all promise the same thing: speed, simplicity, and no engineering required.

But here’s the question nobody’s asking:

Should you lock into an abstraction layer when the real value is in your domain logic, not their infrastructure?

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Agent Platforms Are Commoditizing — Should You Build On One or Own Your Stack?