#agent-frameworks

LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen are developer SDKs for building AI agents, not tools your operations team will ever open. Microsoft moved AutoGen to maintenance mode, which says plenty about framework churn. Here is what each one does, who it serves, and where a business workflow platform fits.

Octomind ran LangChain in production for over 12 months, then ripped it out - debugging the framework was eating the time meant for features. Engineers keep reaching the same verdict: when state is simple, plain code beats an agent framework. Most business processes need one or two AI steps, not a framework at all.