AI Engineering Skills for the Agentic Era

TL;DR

The new AI gap is between those who can make AI finish real work and those who still prompt step-by-step.
Learning to cross this gap involves a small group of interconnected skills, not just a long list of prompts.
Future AI will understand personal workflows, search for information, use tools, remember decisions, and check its own output.
Key skills involve understanding how prompts, context, skills, agents, memory, workflows, APIs, and evaluations fit together.
Knowing the entire 'stack' helps in managing costs, picking the right models, and building continuously improving AI setups.