Article 2 — In 2025 I’m a one-person company. My “developers” are AI agents (and this is how I keep it safe)
In 2025 I leaned fully into the company-of-one model. I’m the product owner and lead designer; AI agents accelerate coding and deployment. They generate components, write docs for each other, cross-review, and even handle first-pass debugging. I ship real products with complex business logic — schemes, forms, integrations, CI/CD — using Cursor for repo-aware coding, Figma for tokens and systems, and Builder.io for visual front-end composition.
Why this works now (and where the pitfalls are)
Usage is mainstream: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools; over half of pros use them daily. That’s not hype — that’s a new baseline. survey.stackoverflow.co
Productivity gains are documented: controlled studies around GitHub Copilot show faster task completion and reduced cognitive load (which matters when you’re “the whole team”). Still, you must design the workflow, not just bolt on a tool. github.blog
Trust is the real constraint. Multiple reads of the 2025 Stack Overflow data show adoption up, but confidence in raw AI output is down — which matches my experience. The fix: explicit human-in-the-loop stages (reviews, tests, audits) and clear ownership of decisions. TechRadar
Agentic AI is promising but risky: Gartner expects >40% of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027 due to cost and unclear value. Treat “agents” as accelerators inside a governed pipeline, not autonomous teams. Reuters
My operating model (you can copy it)
Spec → scaffold: chat prompts spin up screens, routes, and state. I lock requirements in a short design doc.
Generate → test: agents create components and tests; I enforce coding standards and a11y checks.
Wire to data: agents map fields, validations, and error states; I sign off on schemas and fallbacks.
Ship with guardrails: every PR gets human review + smoke tests; I own rollback plans and incident playbooks.
Recent proof
reallaw.ai — shipped to production with AI-assisted UI/data wiring.
myunion.pro — production launch in November 2025 (final hardening underway).
My portfolio: usmanoff.com
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Bottom line: AI agents let one person ship like a small team — if you orchestrate them with tests, reviews, and clear accountability. Adoption is real; blind trust isn’t.