Agentic vs generative — explain it back in your own words.
No jargon. Just how you’d say it to a friend.
01Generative AI is…
02Agentic AI is…
03The difference that matters to me
04One thing I’d want an agent to do
✦ Or build it with AI
Paste this to any AI — Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — to make your own. This is the kind of thing agentic AI can do.
Be my thinking partner and help me make my In My Own Words. Ask me one question at a time for each part below — keep my exact words, stay warm and plain — then assemble my answers into one clean document I can keep and paste into my AI: • Generative AI is… • Agentic AI is… • The difference that matters to me • One thing I’d want an agent to do When we’re done, give it to me ready for Notion, Google Docs, a spreadsheet, or Word.