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What makes software "agentic" instead of just a computer program?

I hear lots of talk about agents and can't see them as being any different from an ordinary computer program.



Computer programs generally don’t call functions non-deterministically, including choosing what functions to call , and when, at runtime.


Computer programs do all of those things actually.




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