A chat conversation with a model that involves multiple “turns” or round trips between the human or agent and the machine (LLM). Multi-turn interactions are a basic building block of agentic behavior because they enable planning and dynamic adaptation. Contrast this with a single-turn or “one-shot” conversation, in which the human sends one query, and the LLM sends one response. A few-shot query is similar to a one-shot because they’re both fast enough to operate in pair-programming mode.
— Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge