Agentic Patterns

Re:Agentic Patterns by greatgib on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:57PM (#46495469)

Looks like all bullshit to me. When you try to make up complex terms to pretend that you are doing engineering but it is baseless.

Something like if I do a list of dev pattern and I say:

- caffeinated break for algorithmic thinking improvement

When I'm thinking about an algorithmic logic, go to have a coffee break, and then go back to my work desk to work on it again.

Here is one of the first "pattern" of the project I opened for example:

   Dogfooding with rapid iteration for agent improvement.

   Developing effective AI agents requires understanding real-world usage and quickly identifying areas for improvement. External feedback loops can be slow, and simulated environments may not capture all nuances.

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Re:Agentic Patterns by soulchild77 on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:37AM (#46495920)

I felt the same and I asked Claude about it. The answer made me chuckle:

> There’s definitely a tendency to dress up fairly straightforward concepts in academic-sounding language. “Agentic” is basically “it runs in a loop and decides what to do next.” Sliding window is just “we only look at the last N tokens.” RAG is “we search for stuff and paste it into the prompt.” [...] When you’re trying to differentiate your startup or justify your research budget, “agentic orchestration layer” lands differently than “a script that calls Claude in a loop.“

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Re:Agentic Patterns by spaceman_2020 on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:48AM (#46496293)

I had someone argue on Twitter recently that they had made an “agent” when all they had really done was use n8n to make a loop that used LLMs and ran on a schedule

People are calling if-then cron tasks “agents” now

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Re:Agentic Patterns by greatgib on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:18AM (#46497492)

Now that you say it, I just realize that it might be useful to me one day if I'm a bland useless startup and I try to dress up my pitch with these terms to try to raise investor money...

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