The agentic gold rush is here. I'm selling shovels.
Everyone's down at the river panning for the AI app that prints money. I'd rather sell the equipment. Here's the honest math on why.
I was the Neanderthal. Now I'm peddling power tools to them.
The trial by fire that taught me to see the next shift coming — and why I'd still be a Neanderthal myself.
30 days of side-hustle agentic engineering: what shipped, the honest caveats, and the day-job comparison that surprised me.
1. Frame I work on a large defense-industry software-engineering program at my day-job — mature codebase, production-rigor controls. After hours, I run an agentic-engineering lever solo on personal projects — coordinating an agent stack while it does the bulk of the implementation work (a prediction research system,