An AI agent looks like magic in a demo and like plumbing in production. Underneath the branding, it is a loop: the model observes the current state, plans a next step, calls a tool, reads the result, and repeats until the goal is met or it runs out of room. Three things decide whether that loop...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/paulcrinigan/how-ai-agents-actually-work-1ljd)