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I find the word agentic to be a hot spike into my brain ... I am not sure why but I think it has to do with the fact it is marketing bs. Is it just me ?
by ggggggdgdhdjdj 1y ago
I find the word agentic to be a hot spike into my brain ... I am not sure why but I think it has to do with the fact it is marketing bs.
Is it just me ?
- handfuloflight 1y agoIt's marketing BS in the hands of grifters.
- simonw 1y agoCan you expand on why you think that?
- handfuloflight 1y agoI'm saying there are grifters who co-opt the terms used by people actually pioneering / exploring the space, to sell BS; and that taints OP's view. This doesn't need stating but if it does I am not saying you are a grifter, obviously, because you substantiate your positions. Just another classic signal v. noise.
- simonw 1y agoThat makes sense, thanks.
- nobodywillobsrv 1y ago"Agentic" feels like the new "Generative". Yes, it means something "vague" and vibes oriented. It's when you can run things in a terminal or async or something maybe.
- simonw 1y agoI've been trying to make it less vague. I'm using it to mean something that's directly related to running tools in a loop to achieve a goal.
- simonw 1y agoI just came round to using that term a couple of weeks ago (see https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/) - I held out for the longest time because it annoyed me that everyone had a different idea of what "agent" meant. In this case I do think the term is justified - "agentic loop" is a good way of describing a loop with a bunch of tool calls driven by an LLM.
- OutOfHere 1y agoThat indeed is the simplest definition for it. In practice, there can be parallel agent calls, asynchronous or synchronous result merger, and context compression or management. Also, there is no shame in adding manual LLM steps to an agentic workflow.
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- dboreham 1y agoNo your spidey sense is correct: it does signify marketing BS.