AIEngineeringAgents2/8/2026
The Death of Prompt Engineering (And What Replaces It)
Prompt engineering had a good run. For about eighteen months, knowing how to whisper the right incantation to a language model was a genuine competitive advantage.
Those days are over. The models got smarter. The tooling got better. The real skill was never prompt engineering — it was systems thinking. The replacement? Agent engineering.