Driven Or Enabled: One Word In The Definition Of An Agent

Bill Doerrfeld opened the Nordic APIs Summit in Stockholm this morning with How AI Agents Change API Interaction Patterns, and about three minutes in he gave the room his definition of an AI agent: “It is a large-language-model-driven system given agency to autonomously make decisions and take actions toward a goal.” It is a good definition, and I agree with most of it. But, I would like to change one word: “It is a large-language-model-enabled system given agency to autonomously make decisions and take actions toward a goal.” Driven becomes enabled. It looks like a small edit, but I think tha