Zarif Automates

AI Glossary

AI automation terms in plain English.

A

Agent Development Environment
A loose label for where an AI agent gets built, run or tested. People use it for three different things, so say which one you mean.
Agentic AI
Agentic AI is AI that takes a goal, plans the steps, uses tools and checks its own progress, instead of answering one prompt and stopping.
AI Automation
AI automation is a workflow where an AI model handles a step that used to need a person, like reading an email and deciding what to do with it.

L

Large Language Model
A large language model (LLM) is an AI trained on huge amounts of text to predict the next word, which lets it read, write and answer questions.

N

n8n
n8n is a source-available automation tool. You connect apps, APIs and AI models as boxes on a canvas, and you can run it on your own server.

P

Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is writing the instructions you give an AI model so it returns the answer you need, in the format you need, every time.