A friend of mine told me a few months ago that AI agents were the next big thing. I wasn’t ready for them yet. I was still getting to know AI, watching it improve and learning through trial and error.
By the summer of 2026, I felt AI was ready to take on serious work: IT tasks, well-documented workflows, and software development in almost any programming language.
So I built an agent. I called it AgentX and asked it to call me “Master Anibal.” I’m a Star Wars fan, sorry!
I connected AgentX to my paid ChatGPT account, which I’d been using for about a year and a half, and started asking it to do things for me. These were tasks I could easily do myself, but I wanted to see how well it could handle them on my macOS laptop.
I started small: update my Homebrew packages, then my other apps, then create an AgentX icon in my Dock.
It felt like the computer had come alive!
After that, I started deploying applications to my personal AWS account through AgentX. That’s when things began to feel futuristic. Tasks that would normally take me hours were happening in minutes.
It could create CloudFormation stacks, update a website, build a new one, prepare a deployment workflow, version releases, and maintain documentation. It could even draw an architecture diagram of the environment we had just designed together.
I still had to set the direction, review the results, and approve important changes. But the distance between having an idea and seeing it work had become much shorter.
At one point, I told it:
ME“We are like pros together, bro.”
AGENTX“We make a solid team, Master Anibal 🤝 You set the direction; I help get it done.”
That pretty much captures the experience.
Don’t be afraid of AI. I can’t promise what it will mean for every job, but in my experience, it makes a complicated working world a little easier to manage. After 27 years in IT, with technology constantly changing, having that kind of support feels like getting room to breathe again.
The days of spending hours figuring out a complicated IT task may not be completely over. You still need experience, judgment, and the ability to recognize when something is wrong. But you no longer have to work through every problem alone.
Think of it as having 100 extra brains to help, while you’re still the one doing the job.