What Is an Agent, Actually?

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-is-an-agent-actually. Untangling LLMs, agents, orchestration, and frameworks to establish a shared vocabulary for agentic systems Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #artificial-intelligence, #large-language-models, #branding, #what-is-an-agent, #agents-explained, #multi-agent-frameworks, #llm-orchestration, #agent-vs-agentic, and more. This story was written by: @vanna-w. Learn more about this writer by checking @vanna-w's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. LLMs didn’t invent the problem of getting independent decision-makers toward one goal; they gave that older problem much more capable technology to run on.