To framework or not to framework” explores the tension every developer feels between building everything from scratch and standing on the shoulders of tools, libraries, and frameworks created by others. In a world where the raw APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers are just a curl command away, it’s tempting - and even fun - to roll your own abstractions. But as our apps grow, so do the trade-offs: complexity, duplication, maintenance, and the painful rediscovery of known problems. In this talk, we’ll unpack how leveraging frameworks like Mastra, ADK, and others doesn’t make you less of a builder - it makes you faster, more durable, and more focused on what truly matters: delivering value, not reinventing wheels. When the landscape shifts as fast as AI, choosing not to build everything yourself isn’t a shortcut - it’s a strategy.

Amp
Entrepreneur, Developer, and Founder.