Agents versus agents

There&rsquo;s a naming collision at the center of the AI conversation right now. Everyone is building &ldquo;agents.&rdquo; No one agrees on what that means. So let me make a distinction the industry hasn&rsquo;t bothered to make: Agents versus agents . agents (lowercase) An agent is an agentic behavior. A tool-use loop. An LLM chain that does something more than one-shot completion. It wakes up,…