Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The framework landscape after 18 months of agent hype For most of 2024 and 2025 the agent-framework conversation was a popularity contest. CrewAI won mindshare with a role-based DSL; LangGraph followed with a denser, more controlling model; AutoGen and Semantic Kernel sat in parallel inside Microsoft; PydanticAI emerged as a quiet Python-purist option. By May 2026 the dust has settled enough that the choice is no longer about which framework exists — it is about which one your team will still be running at the end of next year. Three signals tell the story. LangGraph passed CrewAI on GitHub stars in early 2026. Microsoft Agent Framework v1.0 went GA in April 2026, absorbing AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into one supported runtime, with AutoGen now in research-preview maintenance mode. And…
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