Agentic: Able to act independently toward a goal rather than simply waiting for a human to give it every individual instruction.
The word comes from agency — the capacity to make choices and take action.
In a sentence:
“We’ve spent decades building machines that obey; now we’re building machines that are agentic enough to decide what needs to be done next—and that should either exhilarate us or scare the hell out of us.”
