A few years ago, building software meant writing a series of rules.

If a user clicked a button, the application executed a function. If a condition was true, another function ran. Everything was predictable because every possible outcome had already been programmed.

That approach has worked for decades.

But AI is changing the way software behaves.

Instead of building applications that simply follow instructions, we’re beginning to build systems that can understand goals, make decisions, use tools, and adapt along the way. These systems are called AI agents, and I believe they’re one of the biggest shifts in software development since the rise of cloud computing.