AI glossary

Plain-English definitions for the AI-native era.

Clear, concise definitions of the terms you actually need to understand agentic AI, evals, RAG, and AI-native engineering - written by the engineers who ship them.

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Agentic AI

Systems where LLM-powered agents take actions, use tools, and complete multi-step tasks autonomously.

Multi-agent orchestration

Coordinating specialist agents through routers, planners, and supervisors to complete complex workflows.

Evaluations (evals)

Test suites that measure agent quality, safety, and behavior - used both in CI and production shadowing.

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)

Grounding LLM output in retrieved knowledge from your data - vector search, hybrid retrieval, reranking.

AI-native engineering

An engineering discipline where LLMs and agents are first-class primitives - in code, evals, observability, and CI/CD.

100× velocity

The compound velocity gain from senior pods, AI-pair tooling, and eval-gated CI shipping AI features daily.

Guardrails

Policy, PII, and prompt-injection controls layered into agents - input filters, output validators, and human-in-loop.

Tool use

When an agent calls external functions or APIs to gather data or take actions in the real world.

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