What's the difference? An AI agent is a loop-driven system that can decide which tool to call next, keep state across interactions, and adapt its behaviour. An automation is a fixed sequence of steps that runs the same way every time.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/samchenreviews/ai-agents-vs-automations-when-to-build-an-autonomous-agent-and-when-a-simple-workflow-suffices-2akj)

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