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Agentic (n.) is the quality of AI that plans and carries out tasks on its own, rather than just answering questions.
Gartner estimates only about 130 of the thousands of vendors selling agentic AI offer genuine agentic capabilities; it calls the rest "agent washing."
"Agentic" made Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year shortlist; the winner was "67."
Agentic (n.) is software that stops asking permission and starts asking forgiveness.
Agentic (n.) is a promotion from doing the work to babysitting the thing that does it.
Agentic (n.) is what a vendor calls its old chatbot after the next funding round.
Psychologist Stanley Milgram used "agentic state" for a person who sees themselves as the instrument of another's wishes, no longer responsible for their own actions.
Agentic (n.) is autocomplete with car keys.
Agentic (n.) is the intern who never sleeps, never asks, and books you a flight to the wrong Portland.