My 6-Month Experiment with Autonomous AI Agents: What Actually Changed in My Daily Workflow Introduction Six months ago, I decided to run a personal experiment: for one workday each week, I'd let an autonomous AI agent handle as much of my backend development tasks as possible. No copilot suggestions, no pair programming—just me giving the agent a task description and seeing what it could accomplish independently. I'm a full-stack engineer working primarily on Node.js microservices at a mid-sized tech company, and I was simultaneously excited and terrified. Excited because I'd read the productivity claims. Terrified because I'd seen what happens when AI tools go off the rails. Today I want to share what actually happened—not the hype, not the fears, but the real, day-to-day changes I observed in my workflow, productivity, and even how I think about my work. Week 1: The Learning Curve (aka "Why Won't You Just Do What I Ask?") My first attempt was humbling.…