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Concepts
An AI system framed around planning and carrying out multi-step tasks, often with access to tools.
Agents are the hinge of the chatbot-to-coworker shift and the core question behind AI's labor impact.
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Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a command-line tool for agentic coding on February 24, 2025.[2]
Anthropic said Claude Code lets developers delegate engineering tasks to Claude directly from the terminal.[2]
In a January 6, 2025 blog post, Sam Altman wrote that OpenAI expected to see the first AI agents join the workforce in 2025 and materially change the output of companies.[3]
In current AI product language, agents are commonly framed around models using tools to carry out multi-step work.[2][1]
Published 2024-09-12. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
First public reasoning model in the o1 line.
Published 2025-02-24. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a command-line tool for agentic coding alongside Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
Published 2025-01-06. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
Altman: 'We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies.' Verbatim from his Reflections post.