# Let’s call ‘em “aigents”

> Source: <https://www.autodidacts.io/aigents/>
> Published: 2026-06-13 02:55:12+00:00

# Let’s call ‘em “aigents”

# The portmanteau is overdue

Every 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.

I dislike ambiguity except when I don’t.

AI 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!

So, let’s call them aigents.

Let’s call it, *aigentic engineering.*

I’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.

It’s weird, but we’ll get used to it. And when we get bored, we can shorten it to “aigs”.