Re:Agentic Patterns
by spaceman_2020 on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:48AM
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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
> 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.“