I think 'agent' may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now
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I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now
I've noticed something interesting over the past few weeks: I've started using the term "agent" in conversations where I don't feel the need to then define it, roll my eyes or wrap it in scare quotes.
I've been _very_ hesitant to use the term "agent" for meaningful communication over the last couple of years. It felt to me like the ultimate in buzzword bingo - everyone was talking about agents, but if you quizzed them everyone seemed to hold a different mental model of what they actually were.
I even started collecting definitions in my agent-definitions tag, including crowdsourcing 211 definitions…
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