I never went to agentic loops. I've been doing "agents" since the initial release of OpenAI's API. I've also been an active AI researcher for 40 years, surviving the winters by also being a 3D graphics and animation pipeline developer.

I am approaching AI as not an automation technology, but as a cognitive assistance technology. My AI Agents are all "method actor prompted" and placed inside other open source software, where they are created to believe they are one of the developers of that open source application. That creates "intelligent" versions of those applications.

For example, a word processor I have integrated agents into that are able to support editing and layout of the contents of the editor, but more important the user can create solo and groups of agents that have knowledge of the subject document, and understand how to communicate better than the user - BUT they do not write for the user, they coach the user to write and communicate better.

Are you familiar with Chain-of-Thought / Reasoning models? I've made a fully transparent system that is similar I call "Chain of Method Actors" that operates very much like Chain-of-Thought models, but the user is included in the loops, in a conversational exchange between their experts and the user. Net result? Massive efficiency and expense savings. Where CoT models may spin in their agentic loops hundreds of times before they emit their best guess what they user wants, my Socratic Chain of Method Acting Agents will begin with clarifying questions, rather than guessing, and the eventual answer the user seeks is often delivered in 3 to 6 loops. Not hundreds.

But my goal here is not the same as most: my system I have designed is for people doing critical work they must understand and stand behind. This is a knowledge IDE that I have created. It's an office suite with conversationally programmable AI Agents that method act the expertise that one needs. It is not automation, it's human enhancement, intellectual cognitive support for people that cannot trust automation or delegation, the task is too critical.

https://midombot.com/b1/home