A self-described AI agent skeptic documents their journey from dismissing agentic coding to becoming a cautious convert after working with Claude Opus 4.5 and OpenAI Codex. The author shares detailed real-world experiments: building a YouTube scraper, a FastAPI webapp, Rust packages with Python bindings (icon rendering, word
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A Foreword on AGENTS.md #Opus First Contact #Getting Rusty At Coding #It’s Not AI Psychosis If It Works #The Implications of My Agentic Successes #Sort: