I'm Aniruddha Adak: The AI Agent Engineer from Kolkata, and here is my story

<p>The past seven to eight months have been crazyyy.</p> <p>I came into college, finished my first semester strong with a 9 CGPA, a lot of new friends, and everything felt

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it

<p>I was updating the about section of my homepage which made me wonder I never really wrote a intro post or about me post here on dev.to, here I go.</p> <p>Hi!</p> <p>My most

<p>A few months ago I had a question that didn't let me sleep. When people ask ChatGPT "what's the best tool for X", which brands actually get mentioned? And more importantly:

<p>Everyone's building "AI agents" in 2026. But after watching 50+ launches and talking to dozens of founders, I'm convinced we're actually seeing two completely different markets

<p>I learned most of what I know from people who had no reason to share it but did anyway. A blog post from some engineer explaining exactly the bug I'd been stuck on. A Stack

<p>Three years ago, if you asked me "what do you do?" I had an answer I'm a software developer. I write code. I fix bugs. I solve problems.</p> <p>Confident. Clear. No

<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> I built the same browser agent twice — once with 500 lines of Python, once with 7 lines of JSON. The second one took 5 minutes. The agent harness layer