We have officially entered the Agentic Era, a shift where AI is moving from a passive "copilot" you have to prompt to an active "agent" that can act on your behalf. If 2024 was about chatting with AI, 2026 is about AI doing things for you.

​What Defines the Agentic Era?

​The core difference is agency. Traditional AI (Generative AI) is reactive—it waits for a prompt and provides a response. Agentic AI is proactive—it takes a goal, breaks it down into steps, and executes them autonomously.