(Photo byChris Yang onUnsplash) (This one turned out much longer than I'd expected. The first half is a summary of where agentic AI is today. If you're in a hurry for the "how does it get better?" insights, you can skip straight to the "Bot lanes and middlemen" segment.) I've been meaning to write about agentic AI since the term first landed late last year. AI Stuff™ kept happening, though, so I kept pushing it off. Today I figured I should get this out before the agentic hype wave collapse...
