Press enter or click to view image in full size You may have started hearing a new buzzword in AI circles: agents or agentic AI. If you haven’t, it may come as a surprise, because this is quickly becoming the direction the entire field is moving toward. For years, artificial intelligence has been about assistance. We typed prompts into chatbots, and they typed back answers. Impressive, yes, but still limited. The world is now shifting toward automation, where AI does more than respond.