The Builder Role
The real multiplier today is the engineer who knows how to wield agents effectively and coordinate their output toward a result the company actually cares about. That means decomposing complex problems into tasks agents can execute reliably, reviewing and directing that output with enough judgment to catch what went wrong, and owning the integration into a real system that holds up in production. It also means communicating what was built, to whom, and why it matters. Working well with others, not just technically but in the full human sense: understanding what stakeholders need, translating across the technical and non-technical divide, making your work legible to the people who depend on it. These were always important skills. They are now non-negotiable ones.