Why the Best AI Agents Are Built Without Frameworks (Primitives over Frameworks)

Data Engineers in Toronto July 2025 Monthly Meeting

Topic: Why the Best AI Agents Are Built Without Frameworks (Primitives over Frameworks)

Abstract:
Cursor, CHAI, perplexity, v0, lovable, bolt — what do they all have in common? They weren’t built on AI frameworks—they're built using primitives optimized for speed, scale, and flexibility.

LLMs are evolving fast—like, literally every week. New standards pop up (looking at you, MCP), and APIs change faster than you can keep track. Frameworks just can't move at this speed.

In this talk, I'll challenge conventional engineering wisdom, sharing my real-world experience scaling thousands of AI agents to handle over 100 million monthly runs.

You'll discover how using AI primitives can dramatically speed up iteration, provide bigger scale, and simplify maintenance.

I'll share eight practical agent architectures—covering memory management, auto tool integration, and simple serverless deployment—to help you quickly build reliable and scalable AI agents.

By the end of this session, you'll clearly see why we must rethink and rebuild our infrastructure and focus on AI-native primitives instead of heavy, bloated, and quickly outdated frameworks.

I wonder if we need another S3-moment but for the AI agent infrastructure.

Speaker: Founder and CEO of ⌘ Langbase.com

Speaker Profile:
Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader, founder & CEO of ⌘ Langbase.com, creator of [CHAI.new](https://chai.new/) first on-demand AI Engineer, former​ VP DX at RapidAPI, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Google Dev Expert, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, BGB Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI, WordPress Core​ Dev, and ex-CMO and VP ​of ​Engineering​​ WGA.

He has authored various open-source dev tools millions of developers use worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme​ or the​ corona-cli​. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. “What an awesome example for developers,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft — featuring Awais’s contribution to NASA & corona-cli. He’s a recognized open-source community leader among the 12 featured GitHub Stars.

The meeting is over Microsoft Teams and the joining link is https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzZkYWIyOTAtODk1MC00MjVmLWJlNjUtNTRiODZmODA2Zjdh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22bd9727e8-f539-4c76-983c-6c30130c0bee%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229e8d5a64-e773-4ca2-90f6-9a266129171e%22%7d

See you at the meeting!