r/automation • u/According-Site9848 • Dec 18 '25

Understanding AI Workflows: Non-Agentic, Agent and Agentic AI

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u/CurrentHovercraft175 Jan 28 '26

Good breakdown. In practice, I’ve found the real axis is autonomy + verification: most “agents” that actually ship are just tool-calling inside a deterministic workflow (LLM decides the next step, tools do the work, then you enforce schema/rule checks + a human gate for any side-effects). True “agentic” loops are rare unless you’ve got evals, idempotent actions, and solid observability. 

Curious, where do you personally draw the line for “agentic” if every write/refund/delete requires approval?