How to Build Agents in 2026: Low-level Runtimes vs Orchestration Frameworks
I built Skillenai's chat on Claude Managed Agents — file, bash, sandbox, and our API — and I'll never go back to the days of orchestration frameworks. Our data shows the field is already flipping the same way: in tech news, low-level agent runtimes went from ~30% to 71% of framework-vs-runtime mentions across 2026, while hiring still lags 12:1.