[rco8786]

I still don’t even know what an agent is. Everyone seems to have their own definition. And invariably it’s generic vagaries about architecture, responsibilities of the LLM, sub-agents, comparisons to workflows, etc.

But still not once have I seen an actual agent in the wild doing concrete work.

A “No True Agent” problem if you will.

[iamjackg]

Technically speaking, Claude Code is an agent, for example. It's just a fancy term for an LLM that can call tools in a loop until it thinks it's done with whatever it was tasked to do.

ChatGPT's Deep Research mode is also an agent: it will keep crawling the web and refining things until it feels it has enough material to write a good response.