In Conversation With Ux Magazine

The demo works. People start depending on it. Then one morning you have to explain yesterday's decision to someone who wasn't in the room.That is the moment most “agentic” projects discover they were never orchestrated. They were demos.Josh Tyson and Robb Wilson take the word the market glued together—agentic orchestration—and refuse to treat it as a contradiction. Agentic has come to mean autonomous, probabilistic, experimental. Orchestration, in any domain that cannot afford a wrong answer, has always meant the opposite: consistency, an envelope, a decision you can certify. The collision is the point.Vendors map the first axis: how calls flow. Anthropic splits workflow from agent. LangChain draws a wiring diagram. Google ADK argues about execution order, sometimes with itself. Analysts named a layer above those vendors—an Agent Management Platform, six boxes of furniture. Useful. Incomplete. The missing axis is who is allowed to decide, and whether that decision is deterministic or probabilistic.The on-ramp