AI Agents: The Most Overhyped or Most Underrated Trend of 2026?

Posted on Wed 02 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-agents, opinion, trends

Why I'm Asking This

Every timeline, every newsletter, every product launch this year has the word "agent" stapled to it. Agentic this, autonomous that. It's gotten to the point where "agent" has almost lost meaning — sometimes it means a genuinely autonomous multi-step system, and sometimes it just means "a chatbot …


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