"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
His work, Le Taureau (The Bull), captures this beautifully. Across 11 iterations, Picasso progressively stripped away the details of a bull until only a few lines remained. Yet the bull was unmistakable.
In my journey of learning to build AI agents, I can relate. It has come full circle.
Like many engineers, I started with abstractions and sophisticated software systems. Frameworks, orchestration engines, multi-agent architectures, state machines, vector databases, memory systems, and elaborate planning mechanisms.
