About a year ago, a few of my Forrester colleagues and I coined a joke term for the dominant pattern vendors were passing off as “agentic.” The term was “agent-ish”, and it described workflows that were largely comprised of deterministic, flowchart-driven processes with LLM-based components embedded in them. The “agents” in agent-ish systems had little to no actual agency because most of the heavy lifting was still done by the deterministic flowchart. These designs made sense for their time; LLMs had weak r ...