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Python and TypeScript AI frameworks... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-agent-framework-is-just-a-bad-clone-of-elixir-concurrency-lessons-from-telecom-to-ai-opouzxsdu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OPOUZxSDu.png og:image:alt: Your Agent Framework Is Just a Bad Clone of Elixir: Concurrency Lessons from Telecom to AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/OPOUZxSDu) # [Your Agent Framework Is Just a Bad Clone of Elixir: Concurrency Lessons from Telecom to AI](https://api.daily.dev/r/OPOUZxSDu "Go to post") This title could be clearer and more informative. Try out Clickbait Shield for free (5 uses left this month). The actor model that Erlang introduced in 1986 is essentially the agent model that AI frameworks are rediscovering in 2026\. Python and TypeScript AI frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and Langroid are independently converging on patterns—isolated state, message passing, supervision hierarchies, fault recovery—that the BEAM virtual machine has provided natively for decades. The post compares each framework's approach to OTP primitives, explains why BEAM's preemptive scheduling, per-process garbage collection, supervision trees, and hot code swapping are uniquely suited to long-running multi-agent workloads, and argues that Python/TypeScript can only approximate \~70% of these capabilities due to fundamental runtime limitations. The author also introduces Tribunal, an LLM evaluation framework for Elixir, and points to Jido and Elixir's LangChain as production-ready agentic tooling. 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