I joined Stacklok a little over 5 months ago. It has been a whirlwind. The company we have now is not the company I joined. The industry I reentered is not the industry we have now. Reflecting on that is perhaps a different blog post. Suffice to say that, like many startups, we are learning and adapting to an incredibly dynamic industry. As such, we have new exciting ideas and directions. ...
“Agent” is everywhere in AI conversations. I’d been nodding along with my own rough definition, assuming I’d sharpen it later. As an infra engineer, undefined terms are a bad habit. When a word means everything, it usually means nothing, and the ambiguity bites eventually. I watched two people use “agent” in the same meeting with clearly different meanings. Nobody flagged it. They both left thinking they’d agreed. So I asked Claude. I started with “What does agentic mean?” It sounds like some sort of concrete technology concept I needed to learn about. But it isn’t: “agentic” means “of or relating to an agent.” It sounds like a real technical term but it’s just the adjective form of the noun I couldn’t pin down. ...