Shelf life

Jediah Katz’s trail of job titles, and where this snapshot sits.

1. 2023 Prompt engineer
2. 2025 Context engineer
3. Early 2026 Harness engineer
4. October 2026 This post. Read it as a snapshot.
5. Jediah’s prediction 90% of complex agent work runs in the cloud within six months.
6. After that Code may get cheap. Some of this will need rewriting.