Buzzword Half-Life

"Agentic": The Word That Already Knew It Was Too Good for You

A forensic autopsy of 'agentic' — how it traveled from Bandura's psychology papers and 1990s AI research to a Silicon Valley T-shirt in under a year, what Andrew Ng's June 2024 newsletter post set off, and what (if anything) the concept still usefully describes beneath all the noise.