Everyone's building "agents", but when a scripted FAQ chatbot and a system that writes its own Python scraper are both called agents, the word stops meaning anything useful.
We wrote a sharp breakdown of what actually differentiates agentic systems: not whether something is an agent, but how much autonomy it's been given across reasoning, retrieval, tool use, memory, and reflection.
Key takeaway: minimum viable autonomy. Start with the simplest system that solves the problem. More autonomy means more adaptability, but also more unpredictability, security risk, and governance overhead.
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