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Building Agentic AI Systems

A practical path from why agents matter to building your first multi-agent pipeline: the landscape, the key design decisions, and the hands-on build.

The lessons

  1. 1

    Part 1 · 7 min

    The Agent Revolution Is Here, and Most Organizations Are Not Ready

    Gartner says 40%+ of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, and only ~130 of thousands of "agentic" vendors are real. Here's what the research actually shows, and what separates the teams shipping from the ones stuck in pilot purgatory.

  2. 2

    Part 2 · 7 min

    State of Coding Agents: Who Actually Wins on Real-World Tasks?

    Agents score 90%+ on SWE-bench. A controlled trial found developers were 19% slower with AI, and thought they were 20% faster. Why both are true.

  3. 3

    Part 3 · 8 min

    RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: A 2026 Decision Framework for Practitioners

    Stop arguing. Here's a decision tree grounded in cost, latency, and drift.

  4. 4

    Part 4 · 6 min

    Building Multi-Agent Pipelines with LangGraph: A Practical Guide

    LangChain now recommends the tool-based supervisor over create_supervisor. Here's the pattern to build, the three context decisions that decide if it works, and published benchmarks on which architecture actually costs less.

  5. 5

    Part 5 · 7 min

    LangGraph vs AutoGen vs CrewAI: The 2026 Comparison Is Already Out of Date

    The popular three-way comparison is stale: AutoGen is now maintenance-only, folded into the Microsoft Agent Framework (1.0, April 2026). The real live choice is LangGraph vs CrewAI, and the honest first question is whether you need a framework at all.

  6. 6

    Part 6 · 6 min

    Agent Accuracy Went Up. Agent Reliability Barely Moved.

    Twelve metrics, four dimensions, 14 agentic models. The finding: reliability gains lag well behind capability gains. Why a single success rate hides the flaws that actually break deployments.