The meme going around Chinese tech Twitter captures it perfectly: 2024 - Prompt Engineer ✅ 2025 - Vibe Coding Engineer ✅ 2026 - Agent Engineer ✅ 2027 - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ??? ⁉️ Definitely not unemployed if you are not staying behind. "Agent Architect" is the director where software development is heading to. I just read a great article that shows that the most popular GitHub repos currently are tools for agents.