From Prompting ChatGPT to Orchestrating AI Agents: Two Years as an Ordinary Engineer

Two years ago, my interaction with AI was mostly limited to asking ChatGPT questions and checking its knowledge cutoff. Today, I use multiple coding agents, connect company knowledge systems through MCP, run local models inside iOS applications, and maintain a project memory layer so different agents can continue each other’s work. I am not an AI researcher. I am an ordinary engineer who kept experimenting until AI gradually became part of both my development workflow and my daily life. This...