The Engineer's Shift in the AI Era: From Executor to Result Judge
blelbach · x · 2026-07-19
The author points out that the barrier to entry in the AI era has shifted. As long as you master agent engineering, you can leverage AI to generate results, but judging the quality of those results still requires deep domain expertise. Therefore, the future workflow will have AI generating initial results, while human experts will be responsible for guiding and evaluating the actual value of these outputs.
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