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Agent terminology can be tricky. Here’s some heuristics to work with:

Agent — bot with a job (customer service, posting to X, cold emailing, etc)

Agentic workflow — has defined steps (like a SOP) to complete with code, LLMs, and tool use

Automation — workflow that automatically runs w/o need for intervention

What are agents ACTUALLY?
"Agent" can be defined in several ways. Some customers define agents as fully autonomous systems that operate independently over extended periods, using various tools to accomplish complex tasks. Others use the term to describe more prescriptive implementations that follow predefined workflows. At Anthropic, we categorize all these variations as agentic systems, but draw an important architectural distinction between workflows and agents:

Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths.

Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how they accomplish tasks.

(src: https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents)

There’s some heavy jargon in Anthropic’s definition, but it points out that people tend to falsely link “agent” to “autonomous”

Agent just means that it has a job to complete. We haven’t defined how it will accomplish the task. That’s it

Link to @alexpaden post again here

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There’s some heavy jargon in Anthropic’s definition, but it points out that people tend to falsely link “agent” to “autonomous”

Agent just means that it has a job to complete. We haven’t defined how it will accomplish the task. That’s it

Link to @alexpaden post again here

https://warpcast.com/alexpaden/0xe691cdca