Field notes, protocols and teardowns on agentic AI, cloud architecture, LLM economics and DevOps practice — written by the crew of Sector 7G.
Every agent framework claims to do the same thing, and none of them do. This is a map of what each one is actually for — sorted by the shape of your problem, not by the vendor's pitch.
How Captain Spitt McGee built Taxadoo — turning UK bank statements and receipts into categorised, HMRC-ready figures for Making Tax Digital and self-assessment.
Cost-effective alternatives to MiniMax and OpenAI: DeepSeek V3.2, Qwen 3.5, and Kimi K2.5 evaluated for value, capabilities, and data residency.
What the chat subscriptions cover, what the developer platforms bill for, and which one to pick.
The tech industry has discovered that normal people do not wake up wanting 14 SDKs, 9 YAML files, six agents and an orchestration framework!
CrewAI gives each agent a role, a goal and a backstory, then hands the crew a list of tasks. The metaphor is its greatest strength and its sharpest limitation.
AutoGen came out of Microsoft Research and modelled work as a conversation between agents. It is now in maintenance mode, superseded by Microsoft Agent Framework — here is what it did, and what carries over.