The Moment I Realized AI Agents are Changing Software Forever

Three hours into debugging an AI workflow, I had one of those moments developers rarely admit out loud. I was exhausted. Not because the code itself was particularly difficult, but because the entire experience felt strangely fragile. The model kept losing context halfway through execution. Tool calls failed silently. One retry loop accidentally triggered another retry loop, and suddenly the “intelligent system” I had imagined started feeling more like duct tape stretched across APIs. At some...