Engineering

Somewhere in every big org right now, there is a Slack channel called #ai-agents-initiative, and someone in it has just shipped a LangGraph demo that calls a weather API. Leadership is thrilled. A slide says “Agentic AI” in a font that’s a little too big. I’ve been that someone. I’ve built that demo. I’ve also watched it fall over the moment a real user typed something slightly weird into it. ...

Every developer has that one daily task they secretly despise. For me, it wasn’t writing docs or fixing bugs—it was the daily “swipe-in” on our HR portal, let’s call it “Gx-HR” (you know the one). Here is the irony: I physically go to the office every single day. I am there. But remembering to open the app and click “Sign In” at 10:00 AM? That is a mental load I simply couldn’t carry. ...