Don't Write Frameworks for Dummies

Don't write frameworks for dummies. That sentence stuck with me while reading Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. I didn't fully understand it at first - but after building (and then redesigning) an AI orchestration framework, I do now. Where We Started When we began building a framework for orchestrating AI agents, one of the first features we introduced was a unified request interface across multiple LLM providers. At first, it felt like a great design decision. One interface. Multiple providers. Clean abstraction. Simple. But that simplicity turned out to be misleading. The Problem with "Unified" Abstractions Over time, cracks started to show: All models looked the same to developers By flattening everything into a single interface, we erased the differences between models. Developers stopped thinking about capabilities and limitations - which is exactly what they should be thinking about. Adding new models became harder, not easier New models come wi