---
title: "The Year I Started Coding with AI: My Coding Agent Journey"
subtitle: "Part of the \"From Lab to Life\" Article Collection"
url: "https://talirezun.com/library/year-i-started-coding-with-ai"
markdown: "https://talirezun.com/library/year-i-started-coding-with-ai.md"
type: "Essay"
brand: "From Lab to Life"
published: "2025-09-07"
updated: "2026-10-19T09:31:17.178Z"
authors: ["Tali Režun"]
topics: ["Agent Orchestration","Chasing Jarvis"]
---

# The Year I Started Coding with AI: My Coding Agent Journey

*Part of the "From Lab to Life" Article Collection*

- URL: https://talirezun.com/library/year-i-started-coding-with-ai
- Type: Essay
- Brand: From Lab to Life
- Published: 2025-09-07
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- Author: Tali Režun
- Topics: Agent Orchestration, Chasing Jarvis

## Summary

A personal narrative of the shift from "learning to code" to "directing intelligence", tracing the tools from early agents to orchestration.

## Overview

A personal narrative of the shift from "learning to code" to "directing intelligence", tracing the tools from early agents to orchestration. Covers the move from prompt-and-hope to structured context engineering, and why the change in mental model mattered more than any single tool.

## Editions

Where to read the full work (the canonical edition first):

- [Medium](https://medium.com/@talirezun/the-year-i-started-coding-with-ai-my-coding-agent-journey-431f6f25afe1) (canonical)

## Related

- [Chasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the Code](https://talirezun.com/library/bottleneck-was-never-the-code.md)
- [Three Philosophies, One Goal; A Practitioner's Comparison of Augment Code, Claude Code, and Codex CLI](https://talirezun.com/library/augment-claude-code-codex-compared.md)
- [The Right Context, Not All of It](https://talirezun.com/library/right-context-not-all-of-it.md)

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