How to pronounce agentless

agentless is most commonly pronounced "ay jent less" (/ˈeɪdʒəntləs/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Coined in the OpenAutoCoder/SWE-bench paper for an approach that solves coding tasks WITHOUT an autonomous agent loop — the deliberate antonym of "agentic". STRESS stays on the first syllable: AY-jent-less, not uh-JENT-less.

Source: arXiv 2407.01489 — "Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents"

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