What Are AI Agents? A Complete Guide
An AI agent is a language model placed inside a loop with tools and a stopping rule. How that loop works, where it breaks, and when not to build one.
A. Rahman10 min read
Loading the homepage
Every Tech Agents article tagged Agentic AI — 4 pieces across AI Agents, AI Development and Artificial Intelligence, newest first.
4 articles11 related tags
An AI agent is a language model placed inside a loop with tools and a stopping rule. How that loop works, where it breaks, and when not to build one.
Rule-based automation fails on inputs it was not written for. Agents fail unpredictably. A structured comparison of where each belongs, and how to combine them.
When a change can be drafted by a process that runs your tests, the constraint moves from writing code to reviewing it. What that shift breaks and rewards.
Agentic systems are limited less by model capability than by compounding reliability, context economics, machine identity and interoperability. What each gates.
Tags that appear on the same articles as #Agentic AI.