Evaluating Agents vs. Software

Agentic System Evolution - The industry views agentic systems as a natural evolution of AI software, which itself is a natural evolution of traditional software [1] - Agentic systems can lead to dramatically simpler code and logic compared to previous generations of software, despite being more powerful and capable of more sophisticated tasks [2] Complexity Assessment - The industry suggests that evaluating agentic systems is not necessarily more complex than evaluating traditional software or single-shot LLM outputs [1] - The resulting agentic systems built by sophisticated customers are often simpler than their predecessors [2]