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Should you build agent orchestration yourself or use a framework like LangGraph? How do you decide?

Frameworks promise speed and deliver abstraction you'll eventually fight. Rolling your own is more code but full control. Here is the honest tradeoff, and why many production teams end up thinner than they started.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Applied AI Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

Frameworks promise speed and deliver abstraction you'll eventually fight. Rolling your own is more code but full control. Here is the honest tradeoff, and why many production teams end up thinner than they started.

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