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What AI Agents Actually Cost to Run
A 30-step agent run costs roughly fifteen times a naive per-step estimate, because every step re-sends the entire conversation. Here's the arithmetic and the fixes.
CrewAI vs LangGraph vs AutoGen: Choosing an Agent Framework
CrewAI gets you a demo by Friday. LangGraph gets you a system you can debug. AutoGen treats everything as a conversation. And most 'agent' problems are a state machine with a few model calls.
AI Agents: What Actually Works and What Is Still Demoware
Every page ranking for AI agents was written by an agent vendor. Here's the skeptic's version: the compounding-error math, the five things that genuinely work, and the three-question test before you deploy.
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