AI Labor Market: From Prompts to Agent Architecture

On February 26, 2026, Reuters published an extensive analytical report on the transformation of the AI labor market. The hype around "prompt engineers" has finally died down, giving way to stringent engineering requirements.

The industry no longer needs people who just know how to chat nicely with ChatGPT. The hottest vacancies are now Agentic Workflow Managers, LLM Security Specialists (AI Red Teamers), and Data Engineers for RAG systems (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Corporations are looking for those who can integrate a dozen specialized models into a single pipeline, make them safely access corporate databases, and not hallucinate in the process. Artificial intelligence has become infrastructure, and infrastructure requires real builders.

Source: Reuters