The Top 16 GenAI Patterns: Agentic vs Non-Agentic

The 16 patterns most production GenAI systems use, split between the ones that act on the world and the ones that stay inside the prompt.

Eight patterns that act on the world, seven that reason inside the model, and one that crosses the line. Each comes with a diagram, the paper that started it, and notes from the field on where it shows up in real systems.