The Rise of Agentic AI: Building Autonomous Workflows in 2026

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: ...

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · Chen Kinnrot