Describing AI systems that can plan, take actions, and use tools autonomously across multi-step tasks — not just answer one prompt. The defining tech buzzword of 2025. Every vendor calls themselves agentic; half deliver a single tool call in a loop.
"Their ‘agentic' demo was one tool call in a loop. That's a while-loop."
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Adjective for AI systems that act in multi-step loops rather than single-shot question-answer. An agentic system plans, takes actions, observes results, and replans. The 2024-2026 frontier of LLM productisation.
It's not just chat — the agentic version can actually book the flight for you.
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agentic means Describing AI systems that can plan, take actions, and use tools autonomously across multi-step tasks — not just answer one prompt. It's mostly used in casual online conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
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The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
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