Insights by Ionut Lomer

Part 2 of 2. This article follows "Claude is not a chatbot: how to use it on real software projects". Agentic AI is like a new machine. A powerful one. But nobody shipped a user manual with it, and every company in the room is currently trying to figure out which button does what. That is the honest state of things in 2026. Anthropic is shipping new features faster than most teams can absorb them. Documentation reads like walking into a store where every shelf has something new and there is no map. The instinct is to explore everything. That instinct is the problem.

Most teams have adopted AI assistants in some form by now. Few have built systems around them. A single conversation with Claude is transactional. You type a question, you get an answer, and the session ends. That has real value, but it scales like a calculator: only as fast as you type. A system built with Claude is different. Context is loaded before the work starts. The model knows the project methodology, the team constraints, and the deliverable format before a single instruction is given. Output is consistent across sessions. The re-briefing tax disappears.