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AI Agent vs Agentic AI: The Distinction That Changes Your Architecture

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I was on a call last month where a VP said "we're deploying agentic AI" and what they actually had was a single chatbot connected to a database. That's an agent. A good one, maybe. But calling it "agentic AI" is like calling a single REST endpoint "a microservices architecture." That confusion cost…

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  1. 2026-09-11 12:59 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Agent vs Agentic AI: The Distinction That Changes Your Architecture

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