What is Generative AI? Understanding the Foundation of Modern AI Agents #2

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We are moving past AI that just answers prompts to autonomous systems that can break down goals, use APIs, and complete complex workflows on

<p>Most developers spent 2023 and 2024 experimenting with AI-assisted code completion and chat interfaces. Those tools were useful—but they were also passive. You typed a prompt.

<p>What three independent research groups concluded in early 2026 — and what it means for anyone building agent pipelines today</p> <p>In the first quarter of 2026, at least three

<p>In December 2025, something remarkable happened in the fractious world of artificial intelligence. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and a constellation of other technology

<h1> Anthropic Managed Agents Architecture: Decoupling Brain from Hands </h1> <p>Anthropic published <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents" rel="noopener

<h1> The Agent Loop </h1> <p><em>The entire AI agent stack in 60 lines of Python.</em></p> <p><a class="article-body-image-wrapper"

A marketer opens ChatGPT, types a prompt, and gets a (probably pretty bad) blog post draft back in 30 seconds. That’s generative AI. Their colleague opens Agent-A, gives it a

<p>An AI agent looks like magic in a demo and like plumbing in production. Underneath the branding, it is a loop: the model observes the current state, plans a next step, calls a