Agentic is the marketing-friendly word for 'this product uses an agent loop, not just an LLM call'. The substance is real (the loop is what separates an agent from a chatbot) but the term is overused, including for products that are basically chat completions in a wrapper. When you read 'agentic' on a vendor page, check for the loop, the tools, and the goal, the three ingredients that make a real agent.
Engineering notes from the Digitorn team. No marketing, no launch announcements, no "10 prompts that will change your life". Just the things we write that we'd want to read.