I understand that calling it ‘agentic’ is nice for marketing, but most of what is described in this blog post is not related to agents. The design patterns you describe are explicitly non-agentic. Many of the use cases described are better handled by a single LLM call rather than an agent.

Finally, saying that agents can have predictable behavior is wrong (except on simple tasks where you shouldn’t be using an agent anyway). Agents loop and compound their input, making them highly non-deterministic even for the same prompt.