AI governance dev: agent terminology has completely lost its meaning
rohynal · reddit · 2026-09-22
A developer building agentic AI governance tools argues the field has a vocabulary problem: terms like guardrail, governance, observability, memory, and even "agent" mean different things to different people. Using tool call vs. agent action as an example, he notes everyone builds tooling around these concepts while quietly assuming shared definitions, and has started documenting definitions to stay honest. He asks which agentic AI term has most completely lost its meaning.
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