<i>We've worked with dozens of teams building LLM agents across industries. Consistently, the most successful implementations use simple, composable patterns rather than complex frameworks.</i><p>This explains the Manus hype. Both why it didn't work (too complex) and why there was so much hype (thinking things had significantly advanced beyond this).<p>Maybe advancements will make Manus-esque systems functional but for now it seems like adding brittle processes on top of one another.