LLMs: The Fifth Act

You can be deeply familiar with AI and still be skeptical of “agentic AI.” I was. For a while, I dismissed most “agentic” startups as VC-funded cron jobs. An LLM integration wrapped in a thin scheduler, rebranded as autonomy. But there’s something real underneath the hype, and understanding it requires zooming out. LLMs haven’t evolved in one continuous line. They’ve moved in distinct acts, each…