It feels like only history that we were marveling at the first multi-agent exchanges in early 2024. Back also, seeing a "Manager Agent" assign a task to a "Coder Agent" felt like magic. Fast forward to 2026, and the geography has shifted unnaturally. We're no longer in the period of "experimental prompts"; we're in the period of Agentic Maturity. As someone who has spent the last three times erecting, breaking, and spanning agentic workflows for global enterprises, I’ve seen the hype settle into a important, albeit complex, reality. Moment, I want to partake my trip and analysis of where we stand and where we're heading. Table of Contents 1. The Shift from Orchestration to Autonomy 2. The Framework Wars: Why LangGraph and Swarm Won the 2025 Pivot 3. The Multimodal Revolution: Agents That See, Hear, and Act 4. Personal Perceptivity: Assignments from the Fosses of 2025 5. The Agent Marketplace: From Prompt Engineering to Agentic Services 6. Assid...