Episode 70: Building Production-Ready Agentic AI Systems — AI Life Coach Application

This episode explores what it truly takes to build a production-ready agentic AI system — the architecture beneath it, the behavioural and contextual logic that gives it depth, and the engineering discipline required to move beyond clever demos into systems that evolve with real users. It reflects on where AI coding copilots fall short, why domain understanding matters, and how practical constraints shape every design decision.Humanity has been trying to understand itself long before machines existed. Astrology, the Chinese and Vedic systems, numerology, cultural archetypes, and behavioural science have all attempted, in different ways, to decode why people think, feel, and act the way they do. If you strip away the labels, they are simply frameworks for interpreting human tendencies. Reimagining these systems — not as prediction tools, but as structured behavioural lenses for the modern world — became one of the foundational ideas explored in this episode.The discussion includes my journey of building the AI Life Coach system from scratch as a practical example. Do check it out, support it, and share it — the app is available on both Android and iOS at https://ailifecoach.in/.