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What agentic AI means: the autonomous car reread

A developer draws an analogy between autonomous cars and agentic AI to explain the difference between AI-assisted engineering and agentic engineering. In agentic engineering, the system receives a goal, reads context, makes decisions, uses tools, validates results, and brings evidence for review, shifting the human role from operating microsteps to reviewing behavior, scope, risk, taste, and final quality.

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🏎️ Do you know the difference between Agentic Engineering and AI-Assisted Engineering?

I wrote a simple parallel with autonomous cars that makes the distinction much easier to see.

AI-Assisted Engineering is like the car helping you drive: less effort, more speed, better support.

Agentic Engineering is different. The system receives a goal, reads the context, makes intermediate decisions, uses tools, validates the result, and brings evidence back for review.

That changes your role too.

You stop operating every microstep and start reviewing behavior, scope, risk, taste, and final quality.

That is where the human still matters most.

Read it here: https://tgmarinhopro.com/en/blog/what-agentic-ai-means-autonomous-car-en

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