# 2025: AI agents (/docs/journey/2025-ai-agents)

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title: "2025: AI agents"
description: The year the job changed from building models to building workers, and the first year of agency work at Canz Marketing.
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    title: "From Predictive AI to Forward Deployed Engineer: My 6-Year Journey, Raza Rizwan, July 2026"
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This is the year the job title started to change. Instead of building models,
the repositories start building workers: software that reads, decides, uses
tools and finishes a task. 18 repositories, 10 of them private, 9 of those
agency work.[^github-repos]

## What happened

- **OpenAI Agents SDK.** A customer-support agent in February, a
  meeting-booking agent in November, math and calculator agents in
  November.[^journey-note]
- **First agency work at Canz Marketing.** From May, the agency's first agents
  repository; from August, a client platform (backend and frontend) and the
  plant-identification app rebuilt as three services, one of them a chat
  service on the OpenAI Agents SDK. All private.
- **Agent infrastructure.** StoreLite IMS in December: an inventory and
  billing system built in phases, with FastAPI, MCP and agents working
  together in one backend.[^journey-note]
- **Learning alongside.** A fork of the Panaversity agentic-AI curriculum in
  July, and a robotics-textbook hackathon repository in December.

## The public repositories

| Created | Repository | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-02-06 | agentic-portfolio | Website |
| 2025-02-21 | customerSupportAgent | Customer-support agent |
| 2025-06-23 | G_drive_config | Google Drive configuration |
| 2025-11-14 | meetbooking-agent | Meeting-booking agent |
| 2025-11-20 | calc-project | Calculator project |
| 2025-11-29 | math-agent | Math agent |
| 2025-12-02 | hackathon-robotics-textbook | Hackathon: robotics textbook |
| 2025-12-07 | StoreLite-IMS | Inventory and billing system; Python backend with FastAPI, MCP and agents, built in phases |

## Private work

Ten private repositories: the agency's first agents repository, a client
platform in two parts (backend and frontend), the rebuilt plant-identification
app as three services (identification, chat, search), a portfolio site for a
client, a testing sandbox and a GPT-based agent experiment.[^github-repos]
They are counted here and never named.

## What this era taught

The leap from AI that answers to AI that acts: tools, guardrails and bounded
loops.[^journey-note]

Next: [2026: AI employees and MCP connectors](2026-ai-employees-and-connectors.md).

[^github-repos]: GitHub API, repositories owned by rrizwan98, read 26 August 2026: 18 repositories created in 2025 (8 public, 10 private).
[^journey-note]: From Predictive AI to Forward Deployed Engineer: My 6-Year Journey, Raza Rizwan, July 2026.