AI / Agentic AI Interview Questions
Describe the OODA loop as applied to AI agents?
flowchart LR
A[Observe] --> B[Orient]
B --> C[Decide]
C --> D[Act]
D --> A
The OODA loop, Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, is a decision-making cycle borrowed from military strategy that maps closely onto how agentic AI systems operate in practice.
- Observe: the agent perceives its current context and any new information from the environment
- Orient: it interprets that information in light of its goal and what it already knows
- Decide: it chooses the next action to take
- Act: it executes that action through a tool or API call
Every agentic system, at its core, runs some variation of this cycle, whether it's explicitly framed as OODA, ReAct, or a custom reasoning loop.
What do the four letters in OODA stand for?
Is the OODA loop a one-time process or a repeating cycle?
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