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At some point in 2024, a pattern started appearing in engineering postmortems across AI teams: "We rewrote it without LangChain and shipping became significantly faster." The teams in these postmortems hadn't made a technical mistake in adopting the framework — they'd made a timing mistake. LangChain was the right tool for the prototype and the wrong tool for month seven.

The same story played out enough times that it has a name now: the orchestration framework trap. You adopt a framework that genuinely accelerates early work, and the productivity gain masks a growing structural debt. By the time the debt is visible, you're deep in internals that were never meant to be touched.