Chatbots Are Dead. Long Live Agents: My Take on the Last 10 Days in Tech

TL;DR: GPT‑5.5 and Google’s Remy just pushed us from “AI that replies” to “AI that runs workflows.” If you’re still shipping simple wrappers around LLMs, you’re already behind. The game now is designing agentic systems that can plan, act, and be governed safely in production. The last 10 days felt like a year. If you blinked, you probably missed the most aggressive pivot in software since “let’s put everything in the cloud”: the Agentic Era. This is my breakdown of what actually matters for devs