The Hidden Costs of LangChain, CrewAI, PydanticAI and Others: Why Popular AI Frameworks Are Failing Production Teams

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After 15 years in software development and countless hours wrestling with AI frameworks, I had reached a breaking point. The promise of “production-ready” AI development tools has become a minefield of abstractions, vendor lock-ins, and overhyped capabilities. Let me share why popular frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, and even the newer PydanticAI fall short, and why I created Atomic Agents as the solution we actually need.

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AI benchmarks assess the performance and capabilities of models in standardized tasks.

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AI benchmarks assess the performance and capabilities of models in standardized tasks.

AI benchmarks assess the performance and capabilities of models in standardized tasks.

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