Topic
Agentic
Models Don't Have Agency. Systems Do.
A language model only ever emits tokens. Everything we call agentic is a story about shaping those tokens into intent a runtime can act on. One orderly way to see it runs from a word to a structure to a function. The model never gains agency. The system we build around it does.
How the Machine Guesses the Next Word
Before we can talk about agents, look at what a large language model actually does. It does exactly one thing: guess the next token. Everything agentic we build later stands on that single, humble mechanic.