Should you build agent orchestration yourself or use a framework like LangGraph? How do you decide?
Frameworks promise speed and hand you abstraction you'll eventually fight. Rolling your own is more code but full control. Here is the honest tradeoff, and why many production teams end up thinner than they started.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real GenAI, LLM, and AI/ML engineering interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Frameworks promise speed and hand you abstraction you'll eventually fight. Rolling your own is more code but full control. Here is the honest tradeoff, and why many production teams end up thinner than they started.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
