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Preface: A Noob’s Journey into Agentic AI

Although the AI surge felt like it was simmering for years, I jumped on the bandwagon relatively late—around November 2025.

My very first interaction with AI was Perplexity through its web interface. As a complete novice, my expectations were honest and naive. It took multiple conversational iterations and several frustrated hours to finally grasp what an “AI hallucination” actually meant. Soon after, I tried Google’s Gemini web interface. While helpful for reading bedtime stories out loud to my kids, it didn’t immediately feel game-changing for engineering tasks.

I very recently met someone, and we had a good productive discussion on the features and (long standing) bugs of the Linux kernel. No doubt, Linux is the most featureful kernel in the market. Is also a lot appealing given its breadth of platform support.

Of that discussion we had, it led about Linux’s behavior in tighter stressed scenarios where there is a lot of contention among the core subsystems. From the conversation, I got the feedback that perhaps the issue is no more valid. My conclusion was I must have missed out on the fix because I haven’t really spent any Engineering Lab time in recent past.