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# Let’s call ‘em “aigents”
- URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/aigents/
- Published: 2026-06-13T02:54:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-29T03:18:58.000Z
- Description: The portmanteau is overdue
- Author: Curiositry
- Tags: 100DaysToOffload, AI, Coinages, Language

Every one’s talking about their agents. What agents are we talking about — secret agents? casting agents? foreign agents? literary agents? cleaning agents? *(this slop is just* full *of ionic and non-ironic surfactants—)*. Oh, oh, *AI* agents. 

I dislike ambiguity except when I don’t. 

AI agents is clumsy, and begs to be shortened. Agents is the obvious contraction, but when you drop the AI, it becomes [annoyingly ambiguous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent?ref=autodidacts.io) out of context. It is a canker that eats previous usages of a useful word!

So, let’s call them aigents. 

Let’s call it, *aigentic engineering.*

I’m surprised no one has coined this portmanteau yet; or, if if they did, it never caught on. It’s totally unambiguous, and it’s a fresh namespace. Existing secret-foreign-travel agents needn’t get mixed up in this.

It’s weird, but we’ll get used to it. And when we get bored, we can shorten it to “aigs”.