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.