It was not so long ago that I was having a much closer look at how AI is becoming embedded in our everyday developer work. I have watched more intelligent code suggestions, automated testing routines, and those ubiquitous chatbots become a normal part of the everyday toolkit. They are useful, naturally, but at their core, they are still fundamentally reactive, they still wait for you to inquire of them before taking action.
What has really blown me away recently is the emergence of agentic AI. It is completely different, it does not just sit around and wait to be told what to do, but instead it takes charge itself. It can decide what should be done, strategize the steps, and even adjust if something unexpected happens. It’s sort of like having a colleague who is always planning ahead, as opposed to merely carrying out orders.
