The days of the once-coveted prompt engineer role appear to be numbered. In July 2023, Anthropic made headlines with a $300,000 offer for prompt engineers, while entry-level roles fetched around $85,000 and senior positions averaged $200,000. But as AI systems evolve into agents powered by retrieval, memory, policies, application programming interfaces (APIs), and workflows, prompts are becoming just a cog in a larger machine.
Context engineering is already eclipsing prompt engineering, much…

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