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Agent vs Workflow vs a Single Call
Three architectures sit under the word agent, and they differ by who decides what happens next. A workflow has its steps written in advance; an agent chooses its next action from what it just observed. Picking the wrong one is the most expensive early decision in an AI deployment, and picking the boring one is usually correct.
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