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One AI story a week, read the way a data auditor reads it. The video, the evidence, and the one test to run.
Generative AI vs AI Agents vs Agentic AI vs Skills, Explained for Beginners
Generative AI is the engine, an agent runs it in a loop, a skill is its manual, MCP its plug, agentic a dial. Most people need two.
What the file found
- Failed
Gartner estimates only about 130 of the thousands of companies selling agentic AI are the real thing.
- Failed
If a person wrote the next step in advance, it's a workflow, not an agent, however smart it looks.
- Held
OpenAI's guide says simple chatbots and single-turn models are not agents. Agents accomplish tasks independently.
- Held
Skills became an open standard, and ChatGPT and Codex now read the same SKILL.md format.
The test to run this week
Ask four questions in order and stop at the first that does the job: chat app, skill, connector, agent.
Earlier briefs
All case files- 010 AI Layoffs in India: Real or Excuse? I Checked the DataThe real AI job loss in India so far isn't the email that says you're fired. It's the job that never gets posted. Audit Playbook
- 009 AI Can Copy Any App. 5 Checks Before You Cancel YoursYou were never really paying for the code: you were paying for someone to answer for it. Audit Playbook
- 008 Don't Turn Off Gmail's AI Until You Watch ThisA default is a decision someone else made for you. Failure Teardown
- 007 Why AI Fails Without Anyone Noticing (and How to Catch It)AI observability is vouching for AI: every answer traced back to what it was based on. Audit Playbook
- 006 AI Can Now Clone Photoshop. Here's What Gets You Banned.AI made taking software apart cheap, so the protection moved from code to fine print. Failure Teardown
- 005 A Trusted Security Company's Secret Key Was the Number 4When the evidence and the explanation don't match, re-perform the evidence instead of auditing the story. Failure Teardown
- 004 Grok Bot Wants a Photo of Your Credit Card. Who Pays If It Goes Wrong?A tweet is not a control, and on paper, today, the person who carries the risk is you. Failure Teardown
- 003 I Opened an AI Skill File. Check These 4 Things Before You Install OneThe test isn't whether a skill touches the internet. It's whether what it touches matches what it says it does. Build Lab
- 002 How to Audit a GenAI ImplementationWhatever the model says, the company said it. Audit Playbook
- 001 Claude Code Effort Levels: 0/5 to 5/5 With One Setting (and When It Backfires)More effort fixes missing edge cases. It does not fix a wrong approach. Build Lab
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