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Yeah, the original article title "How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform" is better.
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> now that unfortunately some folks attribute agency to these agentic systems.

You're doing that by calling them "agentic systems".

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Unfortunately that’s what they are called. I was hoping the phrasing would highlight the problem rather than propagate it.
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Eh, if you tell me that I need to do X, then I can make choices on how to accomplish X, that I am no longer an agent as a human?

You're trying to redefine long standing definitions for God knows what reason.

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The difference is that you are a sentient person who decides to follow my instructions, not just a tool that I use.
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Yah it's just an ad, and "Pentesting agents finds low-hanging vulnerability" isn't gonna drive clicks.
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It's not an ad for McKinsey though.
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... at a massive company

That's important. Cloudwall isn't really saying they have some secret sauce here, but it's noteworthy who they nabbed.

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Ok, we've reverted the title (submitted title was "AI Agent Hacks McKinsey")
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