Trend pieces answer with vibes. Vibes are cheap. Adoption leaves tracks on GitHub, and the tracks are public. - The honest signals: commit cadence (is it alive), contributor growth (is the community widening), issue responsiveness, release cadence. - No single signal means much. Together they draw a picture press releases cannot fake. - The broad picture: consolidation. A handful of frameworks absorb most activity. Betting against gravity is expensive. - The shift to watch: from demos to deployment concerns. The frameworks gaining traction get serious about observability, evaluation, and local model support. Hype chases capabilities. Adoption chases reliability. Want the agent without the homework? PrivateLLM deploy sets up your private LLM on AWS for $50 plus usage.