AI agent frameworks: what they give you, and what they don't
What an AI agent framework actually provides, how crewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, and the provider SDKs differ, and the infrastructure none of them ship.
what I learned building Aldena: roles, handoffs, reviews, and where a single coding agent runs out of road.
What an AI agent framework actually provides, how crewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, and the provider SDKs differ, and the infrastructure none of them ship.
How I orchestrate AI agent teams in Aldena: why hierarchy beats a flat swarm, how work travels, what shared memory and approval gates do, and where tokens go.
An honest report from building Aldena with its own agent teams: the agents, the guardrails, the review gate that stays human, and where the money goes.
A practical guide to getting real work out of AI coding agents. Plan before you delegate, scope small, review with suspicion, and trust tests over confidence.
opus 4.5's reported scores, read by someone who runs agent teams on these models: which benchmarks predict delegated work, and which ones are noise.
sonnet 5 beats opus 4.8 on terminal work and edges it on knowledge work at 40 percent less. i map each launch benchmark to the agent job it actually predicts.
The business case for enterprise AI agents is teams, not smarter assistants. Where the value shows up, what governance has to exist, and how I would start.
A working AI agent team needs real roles, a coordinator that only delegates, bounded channels, shared memory, and cost-tiered models. Here is the build.
an open vs closed model comparison for choosing what runs your ai agents: cost, latency, eval deltas, and why per-role assignment beats one champion.
A buyer's guide to multi-agent platforms. How a platform differs from a framework, what to test in orchestration and permissions, and where guardrails go.
How multi-agent systems decompose work, coordinate, and fail in production, plus a plain test for when a single agent is the cheaper, better call.
the real bill of materials behind a self-hosted ai agent: gateway, sandbox, memory, browser, auth, and cost. and what changes when that job is someone else's.
a multi-agent system is several autonomous agents coordinating in a shared environment. the definition, the components, the use cases, and the failure modes.