I've settled on agents as meaning "LLMs calling tools in a loop to achieve a goal" but OpenAI continue to muddy the waters with much more vague definitions. Swyx spotted this one in the press pack OpenAI sent out for their DevDay announcements today:
How does OpenAl define an "agent"? An Al agent is a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user.
Adding this one to my collection.
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