Agents

If 2023 was the year of the Chatbot and 2024 was the year of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), then 2026 is officially the year of Agentic AI. We’ve moved past the novelty of “talking to a document.” Today’s developers aren’t just building interfaces for LLMs; they are building autonomous systems capable of planning, executing, and correcting their own workflows. We are shifting from Generative AI to Agentic AI. What Makes an AI “Agentic”? An agent isn’t just a wrapper around an LLM. To be truly agentic, a system needs three core capabilities: ...

The world of AI agents is exploding, and while frameworks like LangChain and AutoGen have been dominating the conversation, there’s a new player in town that’s worth your attention: Strands Agents. Strands Agents is an open-source framework developed by AWS, designed to help developers build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems with minimal code. Unlike some heavier frameworks, Strands focuses on providing simple primitives for complex orchestration patterns like handoffs, swarms, and graph workflows. ...