Vibe-o-meter
Hyped
Disillusioned
time →
Disillusioned(but relieved)
Hyped(but somewhat scared)
My triangle of influence
What is Agentic AI anyways?
What we've been building
(& seeing)
Simple RAG chatbots
Agentic criteria
- LLM
- State last three messages
- Tool-use if one counts retrieval as a single tool
- Control-loop running deterministically through a graph
LLM-based workflows
Agentic criteria
- LLM decides and generates
- State memory, but still shallow
- Tool-use memory · vector DB · web search
- Control-loop a guardrails rewrite loop — but mostly pre-wired
Design moves to the forefront
Agentic criteria
- LLM decides and generates
- State session memory, still shallow
- Tool-use a handful of wired-in tools
- Control-loop still a fixed, pre-wired flow
Truly agentic systems
Agentic criteria
- LLM plans, reasons and decides
- State memory, documents, evolving plan
- Tool-use retrieve · generate · verify
- Control-loop plans, acts, checks and retries on its own
What's on the horizon