Photo by Julien Tromeur by Unsplash What is “agentic” AI? Recent advances in artificial intelligence have introduced a new category of AI tools often described as “agentic.” Earlier generations of AI were largely assistive: they help users find information, summarize documents, and draft text, all while leaving execution to the users themselves. Agentic tools go further by actually executing tasks on the user’s behalf. Agentic tools are increasingly appearing across industries in the form...