Agentic

A way of working in which an agent plans and carries out the work, decides its own next steps, and uses tools to complete a task or goal.

Also called

Agentic workflow A workflow with fixed steps, set by people or code, where a model handles some of the steps and uses judgment inside them.
Agentic coding A type of programming where a person gives a goal or loose instructions, and an agent decides its own next steps to plan, write, run and test the code.
Software factory A software development pipeline where people supply the instructions and checks, and agents do most of the building, testing and fixing.
Vibe coding A way of building software where a person describes what they want and accepts the code AI tools write without reading it, judging only whether the result works.

AI-assisted A way of working where a person decides each step and does the task, and AI tools help with parts of it.