From "What Is Agentic AI?" to Deploying AI Agents on IBM Cloud — My First Month as a Student Founder in a Tech Internship
I'm writing this at the end of Week 2 of a four-week IBM SkillsBuild internship, with my laptop open on three tabs — the watsonx Orchestrate agent builder, a half-finished architecture diagram for my final project, and this draft. I didn't plan to write this mid-internship. But something about the last two weeks felt worth documenting before the momentum of Week 3 erases the texture of it. Who I Am, and Why This Internship Felt Different I'm a first-year B.Tech CSE student at Government Engineering College, Buxar, Bihar. I'm also the founder of Mediokart, a rural healthcare startup — and before anyone asks, yes, I started building it before I joined college. The startup began as AuraBox, a smart IoT-based first-aid box, and has since evolved into Sahayak, a WhatsApp-based AI health assistant in Hindi and Bhojpuri. I run it with a mix of real mentors, online communities, and — not going to lie — a lot of conversations with AI tools to fill the gaps in my very small foun...