{"slug": "lets-call-em-aigents", "title": "Let’s call ‘em “aigents”", "summary": "The author proposes the portmanteau 'aigents' to replace the ambiguous term 'AI agents', arguing that it provides a clear and fresh namespace for artificial intelligence agents without conflicting with other uses of the word 'agents'.", "body_md": "# Let’s call ‘em “aigents”\n\n# The portmanteau is overdue\n\nEvery one’s talking about their agents. What agents are we talking about — secret agents? casting agents? foreign agents? literary agents? cleaning agents? *(this slop is just *full* of ionic and non-ironic surfactants—)*. Oh, oh, *AI* agents.\n\nI dislike ambiguity except when I don’t.\n\nAI agents is clumsy, and begs to be shortened. Agents is the obvious contraction, but when you drop the AI, it becomes [annoyingly ambiguous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent?ref=autodidacts.io) out of context. It is a canker that eats previous usages of a useful word!\n\nSo, let’s call them aigents.\n\nLet’s call it, *aigentic engineering.*\n\nI’m surprised no one has coined this portmanteau yet; or, if if they did, it never caught on. It’s totally unambiguous, and it’s a fresh namespace. Existing secret-foreign-travel agents needn’t get mixed up in this.\n\nIt’s weird, but we’ll get used to it. And when we get bored, we can shorten it to “aigs”.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lets-call-em-aigents", "canonical_source": "https://www.autodidacts.io/aigents/", "published_at": "2026-06-13 02:55:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 03:19:24.386935+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lets-call-em-aigents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lets-call-em-aigents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lets-call-em-aigents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lets-call-em-aigents.jsonld"}}