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Buzzword Half-Life

Buzzword Half-Life

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Nathan Caldwell

Watching one Silicon Valley buzzword decay from precise technical meaning to hollow LinkedIn noise — and rescuing the useful core where one survives.

Buzzword Half-Life
Buzzword Half-Life
2026-06-10

"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.

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