What Is an Agent, Actually?

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Untangling LLMs, agents, orchestration, and frameworks to establish a shared vocabulary for agentic systems
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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.