Alright, fellow devs.
You know the grind when you’re building an AI agent: tweak a prompt, restart the server. Change an API key, dig through three config files. Test a new tool, refactor the main loop. It makes just trying out ideas a massive chore.
I was looking for a better workflow and stumbled upon this project, TEN-framework. Its standout feature for me is the TMAN Designer.
It’s a low-code, graph-based UI where you can visually map out your entire agent’s logic. You can drag and drop components for speech-to-text, LLMs, text-to-speech, and other tools, then wire them together. Need to swap out one service for another? Just replace the node. Want to test a different logical branch? Just re-route the connections.
This completely separates the agent’s flow from the underlying code, which is huge for rapid experimentation. You can mess around with the logic and test different configurations on the fly without ever touching the core application code.
If you’ve been putting off a conversational AI side project because you dread the tedious iteration cycle, this is probably the tool you’ve been looking for. It makes the initial „does this idea even work?“ phase so much faster.
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